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Spreading speeds of a parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis model with logistic source on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$

Analysis of PDEs 2021-07-06 v1

Abstract

The current paper is concerned with the spreading speeds of the following parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis model with logistic source on RN\mathbb{R}^{N}, \begin{equation} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u-\chi\nabla\cdot ( u\nabla v) + u(a-bu),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{N},\cr {v_t}=\Delta v -\lambda v+\mu u,\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{N}. \end{cases}(1) \end{equation} where χ, a, b, λ, μ\chi, \ a,\ b,\ \lambda,\ \mu are positive constants. Assume b>Nμχ4b>\frac{N\mu\chi}{4}. Among others, it is proved that 2a2\sqrt{a} is the spreading speed of the global classical solutions of (1) with nonempty compactly supported initial functions, that is, limtsupxctu(x,t;u0,v0)=0c>2a \lim_{t\to\infty}\sup_{|x|\geq ct}u(x,t;u_0,v_0)=0\quad \forall\,\, c>2\sqrt{a} and lim inftinfxctu(x,t;u0,v0)>00<c<2a. \liminf_{t\to\infty}\inf_{|x|\leq ct}u(x,t;u_0,v_0)>0 \quad \forall\,\, 0<c<2\sqrt{a}. where (u(x,t;u0,v0),v(x,t;u0,v0))(u(x,t;u_0,v_0), v(x,t;u_0,v_0)) is the unique global classical solution of (1) with u(x,0;u0,v0)=u0u(x,0;u_0,v_0)=u_0, v(x,0;u0,v0)=v0v(x,0;u_0,v_0)=v_0, and supp(u0){\rm supp}(u_0), supp(v0){\rm supp}(v_0) are nonempty and compact. It is well known that 2a2\sqrt{a} is the spreading speed of the following Fisher-KPP equation, ut=Δu+u(abu), xRN. u_t=\Delta u+u(a-bu),\quad \forall\,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}. Hence, if b>Nμχ4b>\frac{N\mu\chi}{4}, the chemotaxis neither speeds up nor slows down the spatial spreading in the Fisher-KPP equation.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01551,
  title  = {Spreading speeds of a parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis model with logistic source on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$},
  author = {Wenxian Shen and Shuwen Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01551},
  year   = {2021}
}