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We consider local weak solutions of widely degenerate elliptic PDEs of the type \begin{equation} \label{equazione mia} \mathrm{div}\Biggl(a(x)(|Du|-1)^{p-1}_+\frac{Du}{|Du|}\Biggr)=b(x,u) \ \ \text{ in }\Omega, \end{equation} where $2\leq…
This paper deals with the quasilinear attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u_t=\nabla\cdot \big((u+1)^{m-1}\nabla u -\chi u(u+1)^{p-2}\nabla v +\xi u(u+1)^{q-2}\nabla w\big) +f(u), \\[1.05mm] 0=\Delta v+\alpha…
In this paper, we consider a two species chemotaxis system of parabolic-parabolic-elliptic type with Lotka-Volterra type competition terms in heterogeneous media. We first find various conditions on the parameters which guarantee the global…
Singular limits for the following indirect signalling chemotaxis system \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{lllllll} \partial_t n = \Delta n - \nabla \cdot (n \nabla c ) & \text{in } \Omega\times(0,\infty) , \varepsilon \partial_t c =…
We derive existence results and first order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems governed by quasilinear parabolic PDEs with a class of first order nonlinearities that include for instance quadratic gradient terms.…
A class of chemotaxis-Stokes systems generalizing the prototype \[\left\{ \begin{array}{rcl} n_t + u\cdot\nabla n &=& \nabla \cdot \big(n^{m-1}\nabla n\big) - \nabla \cdot \big(n\nabla c\big), c_t + u\cdot\nabla c &=& \Delta c-nc, u_t…
We introduce and analyse a continuum model for an interacting particle system of Vicsek type. The model is given by a non-linear kinetic partial differential equation (PDE) describing the time-evolution of the density $f_t$, in the single…
We consider a system of reaction-diffusion equations in a bounded interval of the real line, with emphasis on the metastable dynamics, whereby the time-dependent solution approaches its steady state in an asymptotically exponentially long…
We show the existence of locally bounded global solutions to the chemotaxis system \[ u_t = \nabla\cdot(D(u)\nabla u) - \nabla\cdot(\frac{u}{v} \nabla v) \] \[ v_t = \Delta v - uv \] with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and suitably…
When it comes to the nonlinear heat equation $u_t - \Delta u = u^p$, the stability of positive radial steady states in the supercritical case was established in the classical paper by Gui, Ni and Wang. We extend this result to systems of…
This paper is concerned with parabolic gradient systems of the form \[ u_t=-\nabla V (u) + u_{xx}\,, \] where the spatial domain is the whole real line, the state variable $u$ is multidimensional, and the potential $V$ is coercive at…
In this paper, we analyze a PDE system arising in the modeling of phase transition and damage phenomena in thermoviscoelastic materials. The resulting evolution equations in the unknowns \theta (absolute temperature), u (displacement), and…
Motivated by an ongoing collaboration with clinical oncologists and pathologists, we develop a hybrid partial differential equation--ordinary differential equation (PDE--ODE) framework that captures (i) competition between susceptible and…
Chemotaxis, the directional locomotion of cells towards a source of a chemical gradient, is an integral part of many biological processes - for example, bacteria motion, single-cell or multicellular organisms development, immune response,…
In this paper we study the zero-flux chemotaxis-system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u -\chi \nabla \cdot (\frac{u}{v} \nabla v) \\ v_t=\Delta v-f(u)v \end{cases} \end{equation*} in a smooth and bounded domain $\Omega$ of…
We study positive radial solutions of quasilinear elliptic systems with a gradient term in the form $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} \Delta_{p} u&=v^{m}|\nabla u|^{\alpha}&&\quad\mbox{ in }\Omega,\\ \Delta_{p} v&=v^{\beta}|\nabla u|^{q}…
The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of multiple solutions for a family of nonlinear elliptic systems in divergence form coupled with a pointwise gradient constraint: \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll}…
By employing the Fourier transform to derive key a priori estimates for the temporal gradient of the chemical signal, we establish the existence of global solutions and hydrodynamic limit of a chemotactic kinetic model with internal states…
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