Global existence of classical solutions for a reactive polymeric fluid near equilibrium

In this paper, we study a new micro-macro model for a reactive polymeric fluid, which is derived recently in Wang et al. (J Non-Newton Fluid Mech 293:104559, 2021), by using the energetic variational approach. The model couples the breaking/reforming reaction scheme of the microscopic polymers with other mechanical effects in usual viscoelastic complex fluids.We establish the global existence of classical solutions near the global equilibrium, in which the treatment on the chemo-mechanical coupling effect is the most crucial part. In particular, a weighted Poincaré inequality with a mean value is employed to overcome the difficulty that arises from the non-conservative number density distribution of each species.