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Stochastic homogenization of the Keller-Segel chemotaxis system

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-16 v3 Probability Quantitative Methods

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the Keller-Segel chemotaxis system in a random heterogeneous domain. We assume that the corresponding diffusion and chemotaxis coefficients are given by stationary ergodic random fields and apply stochastic two-scale convergence methods to derive the homogenized macroscopic equations. In establishing our results, we also derive a priori estimates for the Keller-Segel system that rely only on the boundedness of the coefficients; in particular, no differentiability assumption on the diffusion and chemotaxis coefficients for the chemotactic species is required. Finally, we prove the convergence of a periodization procedure for approximating the homogenized macroscopic coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.1310.3430,
  title  = {Stochastic homogenization of the Keller-Segel chemotaxis system},
  author = {Anastasios Matzavinos and Mariya Ptashnyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3430},
  year   = {2016}
}