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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…
In this paper we deal with diffusive relaxation limits of nonlinear systems of Euler type modeling chemotactic movement of cells toward Keller--Segel type systems. The approximating systems are either hyperbolic--parabolic or…
We consider the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis on one-dimensional networks. Using a variational characterization of solutions, positivity preservation, conservation of mass, and energy estimates, we establish global existence of weak…
We study the properties of a semi-implicit Euler scheme that is widely used in time discretization of Keller-Segel equations both in the parabolic-elliptic form and the parabolic-parabolic form. We prove that this linear, decoupled,…
As a class of nonlinear partial differential equations, the Keller-Segel system is widely used to model chemotaxis in biology. In this paper, we present the construction and analysis of a decoupled linear, mass-conservative, block-centered…
We are concerned with the hyperbolic Keller-Segel model with quorum sensing, a model describing the collective cell movement due to chemical signalling with a flux limitation for high cell densities. This is a first order quasilinear…
For a Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis in two spatial dimensions we consider a modification of a positivity preserving fully discrete scheme using a local extremum diminishing flux limiter. We discretize space using piecewise linear finite…
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…
We introduce stochastic models of chemotaxis generalizing the deterministic Keller-Segel model. These models include fluctuations which are important in systems with small particle numbers or close to a critical point. Following Dean's…
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…
The Keller-Segel equations are widely used for describing chemotaxis in biology. Recently, a new fully discrete scheme for this model was proposed in [46], mass conservation, positivity and energy decay were proved for the proposed scheme,…
We establish new convergence results, in strong topologies, for solutions of the parabolic-parabolic Keller--Segel system in the plane, to the corresponding solutions of the parabolic-elliptic model, as a physical parameter goes to zero.…
The Keller--Segel PDE is a model for chemotaxis known to exhibit possible finite-time blow-up. Following a seminal work by Tello and Winkler, a logistic damping term is added in this PDE and local well-posedness of mild solutions is proven.…
The parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel equation with sensitivity saturation, because of its pattern formation ability, is a challenge for numerical simulations. We provide two finite-volume schemes whose goals are to preserve, at the discrete…
The paper that follows describes a numerical algorithm to solve the parabolic-parabolic Keller--Segel system characterized by singular sensitivity and signal absorption in such a manner that the numerical approximations converge towards a…
This paper aims at providing a first step toward a qualitative theory for a new class of chemotaxis models derived from the celebrated Keller-Segel system, with the main novelty being that diffusion is nonlinear with flux delimiter…
A finite volume scheme for the (Patlak-) Keller-Segel model in two space dimensions with an additional cross-diffusion term in the elliptic equation for the chemical signal is analyzed. The main feature of the model is that there exists a…
The well-suited discretization of the Keller-Segel equations for chemotaxis has become a very challenging problem due to the convective nature inherent to them. This paper aims to introduce a new upwind, mass-conservative, positive and…
The Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system governs chemotaxis in liquid environments. This system is to be solved for the organism and chemoattractant densities and for the fluid velocity and pressure. It is known that if the total initial cell…
We study a finite volume scheme approximating a parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system with power law diffusion with exponent $\gamma \in [1,3]$ and periodic boundary conditions. We derive conditional a posteriori bounds for the error…