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Rigorous derivation of the nonlocal reaction-diffusion FitzHugh-Nagumo system

Analysis of PDEs 2018-04-12 v2

Abstract

We introduce a spatially extended transport kinetic FitzHugh-Nagumo model with forced local interactions and prove that its hydrodynamic limit converges towards the classical nonlocal reaction-diffusion FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Our approach is based on a relative entropy method, where the macroscopic quantities of the kinetic model are compared with the solution to the nonlocal reaction-diffusion system. This approach allows to make the rigorous link between kinetic and reaction-diffusion models.

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@article{arxiv.1804.01263,
  title  = {Rigorous derivation of the nonlocal reaction-diffusion FitzHugh-Nagumo system},
  author = {Joachim Crevat and Grégory Faye and Francis Filbet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01263},
  year   = {2018}
}