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We propose a model for cell polarization as a response to an external signal which results in a system of PDEs for different variants of a protein on the cell surface and interior respectively. We study stationary states of this model in…

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Diffusion is a fundamental phenomenon that occurs ubiquitously in nature and remains the subject of continuous research interest. Understanding diffusion is a key to understanding leaving systems. In this Chapter, I discuss diffusion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-15 Svyatoslav Kondrat

Random walks are studied on disordered cellular networks in 2-and 3-dimensional spaces with arbitrary curvature. The coefficients of the evolution equation are calculated in term of the structural properties of the cellular system. The…

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Communication between single cells or higher organisms by means of diffusive compounds is an important phenomenon in biological systems. Modelling therefore often occurs, most straightforwardly by a diffusion equation with suitable flux…

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When a flux of Brownian particles is injected in a narrow window located on the surface of a bounded domain, these particles diffuse and can eventually escape through a cluster of narrow windows. At steady-state, we compute asymptotically…

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For a 2-D coupled PDE-ODE bulk-cell model, we investigate symmetry-breaking bifurcations that can emerge when two bulk diffusing species are coupled to two-component nonlinear intracellular reactions that are restricted to occur only within…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-18 Merlin Pelz , Michael J. Ward

In this paper, we deal with analysis of the initial-boundary value problems for the semilinear time-fractional diffusion equations, while the case of the linear equations was considered in the first part of the present work. These equations…

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We consider subdiffusion in a system which consists of two media separated by a thin membrane. The subdiffusion parameters may be different in each of the medium. Using the new method presented in this paper we derive the probabilities (the…

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The life of a cell is governed by highly dynamical microscopic processes. Two notable examples are the diffusion of membrane receptors and the kinetics of transcription factors governing the rates of gene expression. Different fluorescence…

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In this work, we investigate the dynamics of a non-local model describing spontaneous cell polarisation. It consists in a drift-diffusion equation set in the half-space, with the coupling involving the trace value on the boundary. We…

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This paper is devoted to the analysis of some fundamental problems of linear elasticity in 1D continua with self-similar interparticle interactions. We introduce a self-similar continuous field approach where the self-similarity is…

An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation containing a fractional power of an elliptic operator of second order is studied for general boundary…

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We investigate proteins within heterogeneous cell membranes where non-equilibrium phenomena arises from spatial variations in concentration and temperature. We develop simulation methods building on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to…

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We study existence of solutions in the variational sense for a class of stochastic phase-field models describing moving boundary problems. The models consist of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with singular diffusion forced by a…

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Point defects affect material properties by altering electronic states and modifying local bonding environments. However, high-throughput first-principles simulations of point defects are costly due to large simulation cells and complex…

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Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Helena Ribera , Brian Wetton , Timothy Myers

The finite difference scheme with the shifted Gr\"{u}nwarld formula is employed to semi-discrete the fractional diffusion equations. This spatial discretization can reduce to the large system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with…

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We present and analyse a model for cell signalling processes in biological tissues. The model includes diffusion and nonlinear reactions on the cell surfaces, and both inter- and intracellular signalling. Using techniques from the theory of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Mariya Ptashnyk , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation of the quasi-static, linear Biot model in a 3D domain $\Omega$ when the right-hand side of the mass balance equation is concentrated on a 1D line source $\delta_{\Lambda}$. This model…

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