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Simulations are performed to investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a (2+1)-dimensional chemotaxis model of Keller-Segel (KS) type with a logistic growth term. Because of its ability to display auto-aggregation, the KS model has been widely…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 S. Banerjee , A. P. Misra , L. Rondoni

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.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Thomas Cavallazzi , Alexandre Richard , Milica Tomasevic

Motivated by observations of the dynamics of {\it Myxococcus xanthus}, we present a self-interacting random walk model that describes the competition between chemokinesis and chemotaxis. Cells are constrained to move in one dimension, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Maria R. D'Orsogna , Marc Suchard , Tom Chou

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

A Keller-Segel model describes macroscopic dynamics of bacterial colonies and biological cells. Bacteria secret chemical which attracts other bacteria so that they move towards chemical gradient creating nonlocal attraction between…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-05-18 Pavel M. Lushnikov

We present a discrete model of chemotaxis whereby cells responding to a chemoattractant are seen as individual agents whose movement is described through a set of rules that result in a biased random walk. In order to take into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Federica Bubba , Tommaso Lorenzi , Fiona R Macfarlane

We discuss recent progress in the theoretical description of chemotaxis by coupling the diffusion equation of a chemical species to equations describing the motion of sensing microorganisms. In particular, we discuss models for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-05 B. Liebchen , H. Löwen

Enzymes show two distinct transport behaviors in the presence of their substrates in solution. First, their diffusivity enhances with increasing substrate concentration. In addition, enzymes perform directional motion toward regions with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Farzad Mohajerani , Xi Zhao , Ambika Somasundar , Darrell Velegol , Ayusman Sen

In this paper, we focus on the Keller-Segel chemotaxis system in a random heterogeneous domain. We assume that the corresponding diffusion and chemotaxis coefficients are given by stationary ergodic random fields and apply stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Anastasios Matzavinos , Mariya Ptashnyk

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Herbert Egger , Lucas Schöbel-Kröhn

We consider the singular limit of a chemotaxis model of bacterial collective motion recently introduced in arXiv:2009.11048 [math.AP]. The equation models aggregation-diffusion phenomena with advection that is discontinuous and depends…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Maria Gualdani , Mikel Ispizua , Nicola Zamponi

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…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-27 Viktoria Freingruber , Tommaso Lorenzi , Kevin J. Painter , Mariya Ptashnyk

A generically observed mechanism that drives the self-organization of living systems is interaction via chemical signals among the individual elements -- which may represent cells, bacteria, or even enzymes. Here we propose a novel…

We study the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis and develop a composite particle-grid numerical method with adaptive time stepping which allows us to accurately resolve singular solutions. The numerical findings (in two dimensions) are then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Ibrahim Fatkullin

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Adrien Blanchet , Jean Dolbeault , Miguel Escobedo , Javier Fernández

Collective motion of chemotactic bacteria as E. Coli relies, at the individual level, on a continuous reorientation by runs and tumbles. It has been established that the length of run is decided by a stiff response to a temporal sensingof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Benoît Perthame , Shugo Yasuda

We consider the chemotaxis problem for a one-dimensional system. To analyze the interaction of bacteria and attractant we use a modified Keller-Segel model which accounts attractant absorption. To describe the system we use the chemotaxis…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Alex Vasilev

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Santiago Badia , Jesús Bonilla , Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu

Motile bacteria can migrate along chemical gradients in a process known as chemotaxis. When exposed to uniform environmental stress, Escherichia coli cells coordinate their chemotactic responses to form millimeter-sized condensates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Nir Livne , Ady Vaknin , Oded Agam

Aerotaxis is the particular form of chemotaxis in which oxygen plays the role of both the attractant and the repellent. Aerotaxis occurs without methylation adaptation, and it leads to fast and complete aggregation toward the most favorable…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Barbara "Bori" C. Mazzag