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A semilinear version of parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system with the \emph{critical} nonlocal diffusion is considered in one space dimension. We show boundedness of weak solutions under very general conditions on our semilinearity. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Jan Burczak , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

This paper studies the non-negative solutions of the Keller-Segel model with a nonlocal nonlinear source in a bounded domain. The competition between the aggregation and the nonlocal reaction term is highlighted: when the growth factor is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Evangelos A. Latos

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

We construct solutions to the two dimensional parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis that blow up in finite time $T$. The solution is decomposed as the sum of a stationary state concentrated at scale $\lambda$ and of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Charles Collot , Tej-Eddine Ghoul , Nader Masmoudi , Van Tien Nguyen

Motile bacteria can migrate along chemical gradients in a process known as chemotaxis. When exposed to uniform environmental stress, Escherichia coli cells coordinate their chemotactic responses to form millimeter-sized condensates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Nir Livne , Ady Vaknin , Oded Agam

It is known that solutions of the parabolic elliptic Keller-Segel equations in the two dimensional plane decay, as time goes to infinity, provided the initial data admits sub-critical mass and finite second moments, while such solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Debabrata Karmakar , Gershon Wolansky

Unboundedness of solutions is shown to occur in a one-dimensional quasilinear parabolicparabolic chemotaxis system for any initial mass. Our result is also independent of the relation between the speeds of the diffusion of cells and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Tomasz Cieślak

We study the blow-up asymptotics of radially decreasing solutions of the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel-Patlak system in space dimensions $n\ge 3$. In view of the biological background of this system and of its mass conservation property,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Philippe Souplet , Michael Winkler

The existence of weak solutions and upper bounds for the blow-up time for time-discrete parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel models for chemotaxis in the two-dimensional whole space are proved. For various time discretizations, including the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Ansgar Jüngel , Oliver Leingang

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of a non-local model describing spontaneous cell polarisation. It consists in a drift-diffusion equation set in the half-space, with the coupling involving the trace value on the boundary. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Vincent Calvez , Rhoda Hawkins , Nicolas Meunier , Raphael Voituriez

We discuss the structure of the equilibrium states of a regularized Keller-Segel model describing the chemotaxis of bacterial populations. We consider the limit of high degradation of the secreted chemical where analytical results can be…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. H. Chavanis

We study a version of the Keller-Segel model for bacterial chemotaxis, for which exact travelling wave solutions are explicitly known in the zero attractant diffusion limit. Using geometric singular perturbation theory, we construct…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Kristen Harley , Peter van Heijster , Graeme Pettet

We study the solutions of the two-dimensional Keller-Segel system describing chemotaxis. The Keller-Segel system as well as the properties of the blow-up set has been extensively studied. In this paper we obtain generalized solutions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-02 S. Luckhaus , Y. Sugiyama , J. J. L. Velázquez

We consider an initial-boundary value problem describing the formation of colony patterns of bacteria Escherichia coli. This model consists of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with the Keller-Segel system from the chemotaxis theory in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Rafał Celiński , Danielle Hilhorst , Grzegorz Karch , Masayasu Mimura , Pierre Roux

We consider the Keller-Segel system of consumption type coupled with an incompressible fluid equation. The system describes the dynamics of oxygen and bacteria densities evolving within a fluid. We establish local well-posedness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 In-Jee Jeong , Kyungkeun Kang

We study the stationary Keller--Segel chemotaxis models with logistic cellular growth over a one-dimensional region subject to the Neumann boundary condition. We show that nonconstant solutions emerge in the sense of Turing's instability as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Qi Wang , Jingda Yan , Chunyi Gai

The Keller-Segel system describes the collective motion of cells that are attracted by a chemical substance and are able to emit it. In its simplest form, it is a conservative drift-diffusion equation for the cell density coupled to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Adrien Blanchet , Jean Dolbeault , Miguel Escobedo , Javier Fernández

The purpose of this work is the study of \textit{chemotaxis} and how to model it through the equations of Keller-Segel. \textit{Chemotaxis} is a natural process which induces the organisms to direct their movement according to certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Alejandro Fernández-Jiménez

Chemotaxis plays a crucial role in a variety of processes in biology and ecology. In many instances, processes involving chemical attraction take place in fluids. One of the most studied PDE models of chemotaxis is given by Keller-Segel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Alexander Kiselev , Xiaoqian Xu

We consider a generalized class of Keller-Segel models describing the chemotaxis of biological populations (bacteria, amoebae, endothelial cells, social insects,...). We show the analogy with nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equations and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis