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A novel trait-structured Keller-Segel model that explores the dynamics of a migrating cell population guided by chemotaxis in response to an external ligand concentration is derived and analysed. Unlike traditional Keller-Segel models, this…

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Kinetic-transport equations are, by now, standard models to describe the dynamics of populations of bacteria moving by run-and-tumble. Experimental observations show that bacteria increase their run duration when encountering an increasing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Benoît Perthame , Min Tang , Nicolas Vauchelet

Equation of long-range particle drift and diffusion on three-dimensional physical lattice is suggested. This equation can be considered as a lattice analogof space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation for continuum. The lattice approach gives…

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Many mathematical models for biological phenomena, such as the spread of diseases, are based on reaction-diffusion equations for densities of interacting cell populations. We present a consistent derivation of reaction-diffusion equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Marzia Bisi , Davide Cusseddu , Ana Jacinta Soares , Romina Travaglini

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

The phenomenon where cells with elongated protrusions, such as neurons, communicate by contacting other cells and arrange themselves appropriately is termed cell sorting through haptotaxis. This phenomenon is described by partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Hiroshi Ishii , Hideki Murakawa , Yoshitaro Tanaka

Chemotaxis systems of Keller--Segel type constitute one of the central mathematical frameworks for understanding aggregation phenomena in biological and ecological systems. Over the past decades, the theory has evolved from the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Kolade M Owolabi , Eben Mare , Clara O Ijalana , Kolawole S Adegbie

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…

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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

Chemotaxis plays a crucial role in a variety of processes in biology and ecology. Quite often it acts to improve efficiency of biological reactions; one example is the immune system signalling, where infected tissues release chemokines…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jing An , Alexander Kiselev , Yao Yao

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

We study a one-dimensional parabolic PDE with degenerate diffusion and non-Lipschitz nonlinearity involving the derivative. This evolution equation arises when searching radially symmetric solutions of a chemotaxis model of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Alexandre Montaru

We investigate the (reduced) Keller-Segel equations modeling chemotaxis of bio-organisms. We present a formal derivation and partial rigorous results of the blowup dynamics of solution of these equations describing the chemotactic…

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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

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We consider the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis with a nonlinear diffusion coefficent and a singular sensitivity function. We show the existence of travelling waves for wave speeds above a critical value, and establish local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Martin Meyries

A fractional diffusion equation with advection term is rigorously derived from a kinetic transport model with a linear turning operator, featuring a fat-tailed equilibrium distribution and a small directional bias due to a given vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We propose fractional Fokker-Planck equation for the kinetic description of relaxation and superdiffusion processes in constant magnetic and random electric fields. We assume that the random electric field acting on a test charged particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Chechkin , V. Gonchar , M. Szydlowski

Cells encounter a diverse array of physical and chemical signals as they navigate their natural surroundings. However, their response to the simultaneous presence of multiple cues remains elusive. Particularly, the impact of topography…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Valeria Cuentas , Elio Espejo

Deriving evolution equations accounting for both anomalous diffusion and reactions is notoriously difficult, even in the simplest cases. In contrast to normal diffusion, reaction kinetics cannot be incorporated into evolution equations…

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