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In this paper, we propose a numerical scheme to solve the kinetic model for chemotaxis phenomena. Formally, this scheme is shown to be uniformly stable with respect to the small parameter, consistent with the fluid-diffusion limit…
Kinetic-transport equations that take into account the intra-cellular pathways are now considered as the correct description of bacterial chemotaxis by run and tumble. Recent mathematical studies have shown their interest and their…
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…
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…
In this paper we consider kinetic and associated macroscopic models for chemotaxis on a network. Coupling conditions at the nodes of the network for the kinetic problem are presented and used to derive coupling conditions for the…
Chemotaxis describes the intricate interplay of cellular motion in response to a chemical signal. We here consider the case of slab geometry which models chemotactic motion between two infinite membranes. Like previous works, we are…
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…
In this work we introduce a new optimal control algorithm for the Keller-Segel chemo-attraction system, where both boundary and distributed controls are considered and both are associated with introducing/removing the amount of chemical…
In this paper, we numerically study a two-dimensional system modeling the dynamics of dislocation densities. This system is hyperbolic, but not strictly hyperbolic, and couples two non-local transport equations. It is characterized by weak…
We show that the Keller-Segel model in one dimension with Neumann boundary conditions and quadratic cellular diffusion has an intricate phase transition diagram depending on the chemosensitivity strength. Explicit computations allow us to…
This paper proposes a second-order accurate numerical scheme for the Patlak-Keller-Segel system with various mobilities for the description of chemotaxis. Formulated in a variational structure, the entropy part is novelly discretized by a…
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 present a new algorithm based on a Cartesian mesh for the numerical approximation of kinetic models for chemosensitive movements set in an arbitrary geometry. We investigate the influence of the geometry on the collective behavior of…
In this paper we develop a numerical scheme for approximating a $d$-dimensional chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system, $d=2,3$, modeling cellular swimming in incompressible fluids. This model describes the chemotaxis-fluid interaction in cases…
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…
We introduce a numerical scheme to approximate a quasi-linear hyperbolic system which models the movement of cells under the influence of chemotaxis. Since we expect to find solutions which contain vacuum parts, we propose an upwinding…
The Keller-Segel system has been widely proposed as a model for bacterial waves driven by chemotactic processes. Current experiments on {\em E. coli} have shown precise structure of traveling pulses. We present here an alternative…
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…
In this work we numerically study the diffusive limit of run & tumble kinetic models for cell motion due to chemotaxis by means of asymptotic preserving schemes. It is well-known that the diffusive limit of these models leads to the…
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