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How far do chemotaxis-driven forces influence regularity in the Navier-Stokes system?

A three-dimensional chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system is considered. It is known that for all suitably regular initial data, a corresponding initial-boundary value problem admits at least one global weak solution which can be obtained as the pointwise limit of a sequence of solutions to appropriately regularized problems. The present paper shows that after some relaxation time, this solution enjoys further regularity properties and thereby complies with the concept of eventual energy solutions which is newly introduced here, and which inter alia requires that two quasi-dissipative inequalities are ultimately satisfied. Moreover, it is shown that actually for any such eventual energy solution there exists a waiting time beyond which the solution is smooth and classical, and that a spatially homogeneous equilibrium is approached in the large time limit.