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We examine finite-time blow-up solutions $(u, v)$ to \begin{align} \label{prob:star} \tag{$\star$} \begin{cases} u_t = \nabla \cdot (D(u, v) \nabla u - S(u, v) \nabla v), v_t = \Delta v - v + u \end{cases} \end{align} in a ball $\Omega…
This paper considers the dynamics of the following chemotaxis system $$ \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u-\chi\nabla (u\cdot \nabla v)+u\left(a_0(t,x)-a_1(t,x)u-a_2(t,x)\int_{\Omega}u\right),\quad x\in \Omega\cr 0=\Delta v+ u-v,\quad x\in \Omega…
We study global-in-time well-posedness and the behaviour and of the solution to Cauchy problem in the classical Keller-Segel system with logistic term \begin{equation*} \left. \aligned \partial_tn-\Delta n=&-\chi\nabla\cdot(n\nabla c)+\la…
This paper aims to develop numerical approximations of the Keller--Segel equations that mimic at the discrete level the lower bounds and the energy law of the continuous problem. We solve these equations for two unknowns: the organism (or…
It is shown in this paper that blow-up does not occur in the following chemotaxis system under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a smooth, open, bounded domain \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2\): \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t =…
We prove uniqueness in the class of integrable and bounded nonnegative solutions in the energy sense to the Keller-Segel (KS) chemotaxis system. Our proof works for the fully parabolic KS model, it includes the classical parabolic-elliptic…
Derived from a biophysical model for the motion of a crawling cell, the system \[(*)~\begin{cases}u_t=\Delta u-\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)\\0=\Delta v-kv+u\end{cases}\] is investigated in a finite domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq2$,…
In this paper we consider a $d$-dimensional ($d=1,2$) parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel equation with a logistic forcing and a fractional diffusion of order $\alpha \in (0,2)$. We prove uniform in time boundedness of its solution in the…
This paper is concerned with a three-component chemotaxis model accounting for indirect signal production,reading as $u_t = \nabla\cdot(\nabla u - u\nabla v)$,$v_t = \Delta v - v + w$ and $0 = \Delta w - w + u$,posed in a ball of $\mathbb…
We consider, for $a,l\geq1,$ $b,s,\alpha>0,$ and $p>q\geq1,$ the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the equation $-\Delta_{p}u=\lambda u^{q-1}+\beta u^{a-1}\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert ^{b}+mu^{l-1}e^{\alpha u^{s}}$ in a smooth bounded…
This paper deals with the fully parabolic 1d chemotaxis system with diffusion 1/(1 + u). We prove that the above mentioned nonlinearity, despite being a natural candidate, is not critical. It means that for such a diffusion any initial…
The singular parabolic problem $u_t-\triangle u=\lambda{\frac{1+\delta|\nabla u|^2}{(1-u)^2}}$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with Dirichlet boundary condition, models the Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device with…
We study a new nonlocal approach to the mathematical modelling of the Chemotaxis problem, which describes the random motion of a certain population due a substance concentration. Considering the initial-boundary value problem for the…
We consider the chemotaxis system \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} \begin{array}{lll} \medskip u_t =\Delta u^m - \nabla(\frac{u}{v}\nabla v),&{} x\in\Omega,\ t>0, \medskip v_t =\Delta v -uv,&{}x\in\Omega,\ t>0, \medskip \frac{\partial…
This paper investigates a two-dimensional Keller--Segel--Navier--Stokes system with a tensor-valued chemotactic sensitivity $S(x,n,c)$. Under a signal-dependent power-decay condition $|S(x,n,c)| \le s_0 (s_1+c)^{-\gamma}$, we establish the…
In this paper we consider nonnegative solutions of the following parabolic-elliptic cross-diffusion system \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \begin{aligned} &u_t = \Delta u - \nabla(u f(|\nabla v|^2 )\nabla v), \\[6pt] &0= \Delta v…
In bounded smooth domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\in\{2,3\}$, considering the chemotaxis--fluid system \[ \begin{cases} \begin{split} & n_t + u\cdot \nabla n &= \Delta n - \chi \nabla \cdot(\frac{n}{c}\nabla c) &\\ & c_t + u\cdot…
In this paper, we study the spreading speeds and traveling wave solutions of the PDE $$ \begin{cases} u_{t}= \Delta u-\chi \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + u(1-u),\ \ x\in\mathbb{R}^N 0=\Delta v-v+u, \ \ x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \end{cases} $$ where…
This paper is concerned with the nonlinear elliptic problem $-\Delta u=\frac{\lambda }{(a-u)^2}$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This problem arises from Micro-Electromechanical Systems…
We construct axisymmetric solutions to the three-dimensional parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system that blows up in finite time. In particular, the singularity is of type II, which admits locally a leading order profile of the rescaled…