Reacting multi-component fluids -- regular solutions in Lorentz spaces

Abstract

The paper deals with analysis of a model of a multi-component fluid admitting chemical reactions. The flow is considered in the incompressible regime. The main result shows global existence of regular solutions under assumption of suitable smallness conditions. In order to control the solutions a special structure condition on the derivatives of chemical production functions determining the reactions is required. The existence is shown in a new critical functional framework of Lorentz spaces of type $L_{p,r}(0,T;L_q)$, which allows to control the integral $\int_0^\infty \|\nabla u(t)\|_{\infty} dt$.