Global boundedness and large time behaviour in a higher-dimensional quasilinear chemotaxis system with consumption of chemoattractant

This paper deals with the following quasilinear chemotaxis system with consumption of chemoattractant \[ \left\{\begin{array}{@{}ll} u_t=\Delta u^{m}-\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v),\quad & x\in \Omega,\quad t>0,\\ v_t=\Delta v-uv,\quad & x\in \Omega,\quad t>0\\ \end{array}\right. \] in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N(N=3,\,4,\,5)$ with smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$ . It is shown that if $m>\max \{1,\,\frac {3N-2}{2N+2}\}$ , for any reasonably smooth nonnegative initial data, the corresponding no-flux type initial-boundary value problem possesses a globally bounded weak solution. Furthermore, we prove that the solution converges to the spatially homogeneous equilibrium $(\bar {u}_0,\,0)$ in an appropriate sense as $t\rightarrow \infty$ , where $\bar {u}_0=\frac {1}{|\Omega |}\int _\Omega u_0$ . This result not only partly extends the previous global boundedness result in Fan and Jin ( J. Math. Phys. 58 (2017), 011503) and Wang and Xiang ( Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 66 (2015), 3159–3179) to $m>\frac {3N-2}{2N}$ in the case $N\geq 3$ , but also partly improves the global existence result in Zheng and Wang ( Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B 22 (2017), 669–686) to $m>\frac {3N}{2N+2}$ when $N\geq 2$ .