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We investigate further the existence of solutions to kinetic models of chemotaxis. These are nonlinear transport-scattering equations with a quadratic nonlinearity which have been used to describe the motion of bacteria since the 80's when…
In this paper, we propose a kinetic model describing the collective motion by chemotaxis of two species in interaction emitting the same chemoattractant. Such model can be seen as a generalisation to several species of the Othmer-Dunbar-Alt…
We show the existence of local and global in time weak martingale solutions for a stochastic version of the Othmer-Dunbar-Alt kinetic model of chemotaxis under suitable assumptions on the turning kernel and stochastic drift coefficients,…
A nonlinear kinetic chemotaxis model with internal dynamics incorporating signal transduction and adaptation is considered. This paper is concerned with: (i) the global solution for this model, and, (ii) its fast adaptation limit to…
Bacteria are able to respond to environmental signals by changing their rules of movement. When we take into account chemical signals in the environment, this behaviour is often called chemotaxis. At the individual-level, chemotaxis…
Global existence is established for classical solutions to a chemotaxis model with signal-dependent motility for a general class of motility functions $\gamma$ which may in particular decay in an arbitrary way at infinity. Assuming further…
In this work we numerically study the diffusive limit of run & tumble kinetic models for cell motion due to chemotaxis by means of asymptotic preserving schemes. It is well-known that the diffusive limit of these models leads to the…
The existence of travelling waves for a model of concentration waves of bacteria is investigated. The model consists in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of cells following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two…
This paper studies a chemotaxis system where cells move in response to a chemical signal within a confined habitat. The model includes external source terms that combine local and nonlocal growth with dampening effects. The main focus is on…
We consider a coupled bulk/surface model for advection and diffusion of interacting chemical species in biological cells. Specifically, we consider a signalling protein that can exist in both a cytosolic and a membrane-bound state, along…
We present a new algorithm based on a Cartesian mesh for the numerical approximation of kinetic models for chemosensitive movements set in an arbitrary geometry. We investigate the influence of the geometry on the collective behavior of…
In this paper, we study the following the coupled chemotaxis--haptotaxis model with remodeling of non-diffusible attractant $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} u_t = \Delta u-\chi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)- \xi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla w)+\mu u(1- u-w),…
The existence of global-in-time weak solutions to reaction-cross-diffusion systems for an arbitrary number of competing population species is proved. The equations can be derived from an on-lattice random-walk model with general transition…
This paper deals with the fully parabolic chemotaxis-convection model with sensitivity functions for tumor angiogenesis, \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u-\nabla \cdot (u\chi_1(v)\nabla v) +\nabla \cdot (u\chi_2(w)\nabla w), &x \in…
This paper is concerned with the following quasilinear chemotaxis--Navier--Stokes system with nonlinear diffusion and rotation $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} n_t+u\cdot\nabla n=\Delta n^m-\nabla\cdot(nS(x,n,c)\cdot\nabla c),\quad x\in \Omega,…
We perform stability analysis of a kinetic bacterial chemotaxis model of bacterial self-organization, assuming that bacteria respond sharply to chemical signals. The resulting discontinuous tumbling kernel represents the key challenge for…
In this article firstly we develop a new proof for global existence of minimizers for the Kirchhoff-Love plate model. We also present a duality principle and relating sufficient optimality conditions for such a variational plate model. In a…
We consider a nonlinear, strongly coupled, parabolic system arising in the modeling of burglary in residential areas. The system is of chemotaxis-type and involves a logarithmic sensivity function and specific interaction and relaxation…
We consider a reaction-diffusion system which may serve as a model for a ferment catalytic reaction in chemistry. The model consists of a system of reaction diffusion equations with unbounded time dependent coefficients and different…
We consider an attraction-repulsion chemotaxis model coupled with the Navier-Stokes system. This model describes the interaction between a type of cells (e.g., bacteria), which proliferate following a logistic law, and two chemical signals…