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We study the effect of advection on the aggregation and pattern formation in chemotactic systems described by Keller-Segel type models. The evolution of small perturbations is studied analytically in the linear regime complemented by…

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For the first time the phenomenon of cellular structure coarsening are consistently analysed from the positions of kinetic, hydrodynamic and stochastodynamic theories of nonequilibrium statistical systems. Thereby micro-, meso- and…

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We study a system of two coupled nonlinear parabolic equations. It constitutes a variant of the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis, i.e. it models the behaviour of a population of bacteria that interact by means of a signalling substance. We…

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We present a principled data-driven strategy for learning deterministic hydrodynamic models directly from stochastic non-equilibrium active particle trajectories. We apply our method to learning a hydrodynamic model for the propagating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-24 Suryanarayana Maddu , Quentin Vagne , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

A novel approach to the dynamics of dilute solutions of polymer molecules under flow conditions is proposed by applying the rules of mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics (MNET). The probability density describing the state of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Malaga , F. Mandujano , I. Santamaria-Holek

Myxobacteria aggregate and generate fruiting bodies in the soil to survive under starvation conditions. Considering soil as a porous medium, the biological mechanism and dynamic behavior of myxobacteria and slime (chemoattractants) affected…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Fugui Ma , Wenyi Tian , Weihua Deng

The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations that describes the movement of cells or organisms in response to chemical signals, a phenomenon known as chemotaxis. In this study, we analyze a doubly parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Anne Caroline Bronzi , Crystianne Lilian de Andrade

Chemotaxis is a fundamental mechanism of cells and organisms, which is responsible for attracting microbes to food, embryonic cells into developing tissues, or immune cells to infection sites. Mathematically chemotaxis is described by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Erika Hausenblas , Debopriya Mukherjee , Thanh Tran

A thermodynamics for systems at a stationary states is formulated. It is based upon the assumption of the existence of local equilibrium in phase space which enables one to interpret the probability density ans its conjugated nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Santamaria-Holek , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

The interplay between cellular growth and cell-cell signaling is essential for the aggregation and proliferation of bacterial colonies, as well as for the self-organization of cell tissues. To investigate this interplay, we focus here on…

An Euler-type hyperbolic-parabolic system of chemotactic aggregation describing the vascular network formation is investigated in the critical regularity setting. For small initial data around a constant equilibrium state, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Timothée Crin-Barat , Qingyou He , Ling-Yun Shou

Biological functionality of cellular aggregates is largely influenced by the activity and displacements of individual constituent cells. From a theoretical perspective this activity can be characterized by hydrodynamic transport…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-31 Subhadip Chakraborti , Vasily Zaburdaev

The hydrodynamic limit for a kinetic model of chemotaxis is investigated. The limit equation is a non local conservation law, for which finite time blow-up occurs, giving rise to measure-valued solutions and discontinuous velocities. An…

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Hybrid models of chemotaxis combine agent-based models of cells with partial differential equation models of extracellular chemical signals. In this paper, travelling wave properties of hybrid models of bacterial chemotaxis are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Benjamin Franz , Chuan Xue , Kevin J. Painter , Radek Erban

We propose a method to analyze the dynamics of systems exhibiting slow relaxation which is based on mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The method allows us to obtain kinetic equations of the Fokker-Planck type for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Perez-Madrid , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi

We consider the singular limit of a chemotaxis model of bacterial collective motion recently introduced in arXiv:2009.11048 [math.AP]. The equation models aggregation-diffusion phenomena with advection that is discontinuous and depends…

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Recent experiments with self-phoretic particles at low concentrations show a pronounced dynamic clustering [I. Theurkauff \emph{et al.}, Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ \textbf{108}, 268303 (2012)]. We model this situation by taking into account the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-19 Oliver Pohl , Holger Stark

Using the formalism of the classical nucleation theory, we derive a novel kinetic equation for the size and composition distribution of an ensemble of aqueous organic aerosols, evolving via nucleation and concomitant chemical aging. This…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein

Many features of granular media can be modeled by a fluid of hard spheres with inelastic collisions. Under rapid flow conditions, the macroscopic behavior of grains can be described through hydrodynamic equations accounting for dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Garzo , J. W. Dufty

Self-propelled particles with hydrodynamic interactions (microswimmers) have previously been shown to produce long-range ordering phenomena. Many theoretical explanations for these collective phenomena are connected to instabilities in the…

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