Boundary layer problem on chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system with Robin boundary conditions

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the boundary layer problem on a chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system modelling boundary layer formation of aerobic bacteria in fluid. Completing the system with physical Robin-type boundary conditions for oxygen, no-flux and Dirichlet boundary conditions for bacteria and fluid velocity, we show that the gradients of its radial solutions in a region between two concentric spheres possessing boundary layer effects as the oxygen diffusion rate $\varepsilon$ goes to zero and the boundary-layer thickness is of order $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^\alpha)$ with $0<\alpha<\frac{1}{2}$.