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This paper considers differential problems with random switching, with specific applications to the motion of cells and centrally coordinated motion. Starting with a differential-equation model of cell motion that was proposed previously,…

Recent biological experiments have shown that certain types of cells are able to move in structured and confined environment even without the activation of focal adhesion. Focusing on this particular phenomenon and based on previous works,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Chiara Giverso , Gaspard Jankowiak , Luigi Preziosi , Christian Schmeiser

A classical problem describing the collective motion of cells, is the movement driven by consumption/depletion of a nutrient. Here we analyze one of the simplest such model written as a coupled Partial Differential Equation/Ordinary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Benoît Perthame

Cellular tissue behavior is a multiscale problem. At the cell level, out of equilibrium, biochemical reactions drive physical cell-cell interactions in a typical active matter process. Cell modeling computer simulations are a robust tool to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-09 Emanuel F. Teixeira , Heitor C. M. Fernandes , Leonardo G. Brunnet

Cell-cell adhesion is widely hypothesised to maintain cohesion within the long streams of follower cells that trail leader subpopulations during collective migration, including in neural crest cell migration, angiogenesis, and cancer cell…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Thomas Jun Jewell , Samuel W. S. Johnson , Ruth E. Baker , Philip K. Maini

Cells are modeled with spherical grains connected each other. Each cell can shrink and swell by transporting its fluid content to other connected neighbor while still maintaining its density at constant value. As a spherical part of a cell…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Sparisoma Viridi , Nuning Nuraini

Migration of cells can be characterized by two, prototypical types of motion: individual and collective migration. We propose a statistical-inference approach designed to detect the presence of cell-cell interactions that give rise to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-13 Elena Agliari , Pablo J. Sáez , Adriano Barra , Matthieu Piel , Pablo Vargas , Michele Castellana

Experiments of cell migration and chemotaxis assays have been classically performed in the so-called Boyden Chambers. A recent technology, xCELLigence Real Time Cell Analysis, is now allowing to monitor the cell migration in real time. This…

The motivation for this study came from the task of analysing the kinetic behavior of single molecules in a living cell based on Single Molecule Localization Microscopy. Given measurements of both the motion of clusters and molecules, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Christian Wald , Gabriele Steidl

We consider a kinetic model, which describes the sedimentation of rod-like particles in dilute suspensions under the influence of gravity. This model has recently been derived by Helzel and Tzavaras in \cite{HT2015}. Here we restrict our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-09 Christiane Helzel , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

Individual constituent balance equations are often used to derive expressions for species-specific segregation velocities in flows of dense granular mixtures. We propose a semiempirical expression for the interspecies momentum exchange in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-19 Yifei Duan , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

We propose a calibrated two-dimensional cellular automaton model to simulate pedestrian motion behavior. It is a v=4 (3) model with exclusion statistics and random shuffled dynamics. The underlying regular grid structure results in a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-01 Michael Schultz , Hartmut Fricke

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Maria Gualdani , Mikel Ispizua , Nicola Zamponi

We introduce a simple model of active transport for an ensemble of particles driven by an external shear flow. Active refers to the fact that the flow of the particles is modified by the distribution of particles itself. The model consists…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristobal Lopez

Motivated by the motion of nematode sperm cells, we present a model for the motion of an adhesive gel on a solid substrate. The gel polymerizes at the leading edge and depolymerizes at the rear. The motion results from a competition between…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Francois Joanny , Frank Julicher , Jacques Prost

This paper continues our survey about the mean-field derivation of the two-dimensional signal-dependent Keller-Segel system studied in [1]. Therefore, we consider the same system of moderately interacting particles as before. The difference…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Lukas Bol , Li Chen

The interaction of the actin cytoskeleton with cell-substrate adhesions is necessary for cell migration. While the trajectories of motile cells have a stochastic character, investigations of cell motility mechanisms rarely elaborate on the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-21 Aydar Uatay

Dense monolayers of living cells display intriguing relaxation dynamics, reminiscent of soft and glassy materials close to the jamming transition, and migrate collectively when space is available, as in wound healing or in cancer invasion.…

A simple model is proposed that describes the various morphodynamic principles of migrating cells from polar to amoeboidal motions. The model equation is derived using competing internal cellular compass variables and symmetries of the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-30 Shuji Ishihara

We introduce a two-dimensional Hele-Shaw type free boundary model for motility of eukaryotic cells on substrates. The key ingredients of this model are the Darcy law for overdamped motion of the cytoskeleton gel (active gel) coupled with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Volodymyr Rybalko , Leonid Berlyand