Well-posedness of a 3D parabolic–hyperbolic Keller–Segel system in the Sobolev space framework

Abstract

We investigate global strong solution to a 3-dimensional parabolic–hyperbolic system arising from the Keller–Segel model. We establish the global well-posedness and asymptotic behavior in the energy functional setting. Precisely speaking, if the initial difference between cell density and its mean is small in L2, and the ratio of the initial gradient of the chemical concentration and the initial chemical concentration is also small in H1, then they remain to be small in L2×H1 for all time. Moreover, if the mean value of the initial cell density is smaller than some constant, then the cell density approaches its initial mean and the chemical concentration decays exponentially to zero as t goes to infinity. The proof relies on an application of Fourier analysis to a linearized parabolic–hyperbolic system and the smoothing effect of the cell density and the damping effect of the chemical concentration.