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We consider a model of congestion dynamics with chemotaxis, where the density of cells follows the chemical signal it generates, while observing an incompressibility constraint. We show that when the chemical diffuses slowly and attracts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Inwon Kim , Antoine Mellet , Yijing Wu

Organisms use specialized sensors to measure their environments, but the fundamental principles that determine their accuracy remain largely unknown. In Escherichia coli chemotaxis, we previously found that gradient-climbing speed is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Henry H. Mattingly , Keita Kamino , Jude Ong , Rafaela Kottou , Thierry Emonet , Benjamin B. Machta

We propose two nonlinear random walk models which are suitable for the analysis of both chemotaxis and anomalous transport. We derive the balance equations for the population density for the case when the transition rate for a random walk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-22 Sergei Fedotov

In this paper, we propose and study a stochastic aggregation-diffusion equation of the Keller-Segel (KS) type for modeling the chemotaxis in dimensions $d=2,3$. Unlike the classical deterministic KS system, which only allows for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Hui Huang , Jinniao Qiu

Controlling bacterial surface adhesion and subsequent biofilm formation in fluid systems is crucial for the safety and efficacy of medical and industrial processes. Here, we theoretically examine the transport of bacteria close to surfaces,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-08 Edwina F. Yeo , Benjamin J. Walker , Philip Pearce , Mohit P. Dalwadi

We propose and analyze an optimal control problem associated with a Keller-Segel type parabolic system with chemoattraction, modeling the glioblastoma growth in a bi-dimensional bounded domain, influenced by the presence of oxygen where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Juan J. Forero-Hernańdez , Francisco Guillén-González , Élder J. Villamizar-Roa

Since the introduction of the Keller-Segel model in 1970 to describe chemotaxis (the interactions between cell distributions u and chemical distributions v), there has been a significant proliferation of research articles exploring various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Khadijeh Baghaei , Silvia Frassu , Yuya Tanaka , Giuseppe Viglialoro

In this work, we rigorously study chemotaxis effect versus haptotaxis effect on boundedness, blow-up and asymptotical behavior of solutions for a combined chemotaxis-haptotaxis model in 2D settings. It is well-known that the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Hai-Yang Jin , Tian Xiang

We investigate the spectral stability of travelling wave solutions in a Keller-Segel model of bacterial chemotaxis with a logarithmic chemosensitivity function and a constant, sublinear, and linear consumption rate. Linearising around the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 P. N. Davis , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

Previous studies of chemotaxis models with consumption of the chemoattractant (with or without fluid) have not been successful in explaining pattern formation even in the simplest form of concentration near the boundary, which had been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Marcel Braukhoff , Johannes Lankeit

The Cellular Potts Model (CPM) has been used for simulating various biological phenomena such as differential adhesion, fruiting body formation of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, angiogenesis, cancer invasion, chondrogenesis in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark Alber , Nan Chen , Tilmann Glimm , Pavel M. Lushnikov

Living cells are capable of interacting with their environments in a variety of ways, including cell signalling, adhesion, and directed motion. These behaviours are often mediated by receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane, which…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Hannah Sleath , Bortolo Mognetti , Yuval Elani , Lorenzo Di Michele

Biological systems like ciliated microorganisms are capable to respond to the external chemical gradients, a process known as chemotaxis which has been studied here using the chiral squirmer model. This theoretical model considers the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ruma Maity , P. S. Burada

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

This manuscript deals with the three-dimensional version of a flux-limited Keller-Segel system coupled to the incompressible Stokes equations through transport and buoyancy. The main goal consists in verifying that within a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Michael Winkler

Chemotaxis plays a significant role in numerous physiological processes. The Keller-Segel equation serves as a mathematical model for simulating the phenomenon of cell population aggregation under chemotaxis, possessing physical properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Mingmei Chen , Kun Wang , Cong Xie

We discuss velocity-jump models for chemotaxis of bacteria with an internal state that allows the velocity jump rate to depend on the memory of the chemoattractant concentration along their path of motion. Using probabilistic techniques, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-23 Mathias Rousset , Giovanni Samaey

In many sensory systems, transmembrane receptors are spatially organized in large clusters. Such arrangement may facilitate signal amplification and the integration of multiple stimuli. However, this organization likely also affects the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-05 William Pontius , Michael W. Sneddon , Thierry Emonet

In this paper, we investigate the long-time dynamics of a repulsive Keller-Segel chemotaxis system. The model features negative chemotaxis, logistic growth and a cell death term, accounting for a lethal chemorepellent that is self-produced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Federico Herrero-Hervás , Mihaela Negreanu

While the role of local interactions in nonequilibrium phase transitions is well studied, a fundamental understanding of the effects of long-range interactions is lacking. We study the critical dynamics of reproducing agents subject to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-25 Jasper van der Kolk , Florian Rasshofer , Richard Swiderski , Astik Haldar , Abhik Basu , Erwin Frey