Global existence and optimal decay rate of weak solutions to the co-rotation Hooke dumbbell model

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly study global existence and optimal $L^2$ decay rate of weak solutions to the co-rotation Hooke dumbbell model. This micro-macro model is a coupling of the Navier-Stokes equation with a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation. Based on the defect measure propagation method, we prove that the co-rotation Hooke dumbbell model admits a global weak solution provided the initial data under different integrable conditions. Moreover, we obtain optimal time decay rate in $L^2$ for the weak solutions obtained by the Fourier splitting method.