Global well-posedness of a Navier–Stokes–Cahn–Hilliard system with chemotaxis and singular potential in 2D

Abstract

We study a diffuse interface model that describes the dynamics of incompressible two-phase flows with chemotaxis effects. This model also takes into account some significant mechanisms such as active transport and nonlocal interactions of Oono's type. The system under investigation couples the Navier–Stokes equations for the fluid velocity, a convective Cahn–Hilliard equation with physically relevant singular potential for the phase-field variable and an advection-diffusion-reaction equation for the nutrient density. For the initial boundary value problem in a smooth bounded domain Ω ⊂ R 2 , we first prove the existence and uniqueness of global strong solutions that are strictly separated from the pure states ±1 over time. Then we prove the continuous dependence with respect to the initial data and source term for the strong solution in energy norms. Finally, we show the propagation of regularity for global weak solutions.