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Recent advancements in the ability to construct three-dimensional (3D) tissues and organoids from stem cells and biomaterials have not only opened abundant new research avenues in disease modeling and regenerative medicine but also have…
Cell polarity and movement are fundamental to many biological functions. Experimental and theoretically studies have indicated that interactions of certain proteins lead to the cell polarization which plays a key role in controlling the…
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Let $\Omega$ be a domain in $\mathbb R^N$, where $N \ge 2$ and $\partial\Omega$ is not necessarily bounded. We consider nonlinear diffusion equations of the form $\partial_t u= \Delta \phi(u)$. Let $u=u(x,t)$ be the solution of either the…
We investigate reversible diffusion-influenced reactions of an isolated pair in two dimensions. To this end, we employ convolution relations that permit deriving the survival probability of the reversible reaction directly in terms of the…
A Dirichlet problem is considered for the eikonal equation in an anisotropic medium. The nonlinear boundary value problem (BVP) formulated in the present work is the limit of the diffusion-reaction problem with a reaction parameter tending…
We study small perturbations of diffusion processes in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that leave invariant a finite collection of hypersurfaces. Each surface is assumed to be repelling for the unperturbed process, and the unperturbed motion on each of the…
In this paper we present a mathematical study of particle diffusion inside and outside a spherical biological cell that has been exposed on one side to a propagating planar diffusive front. The media inside and outside the spherical cell…
We investigate singularly perturbed elliptic problems with multiplicative nonlocal diffusion terms subject to Robin boundary conditions. The diffusion depends on a global quantity of the solution, which introduces a nonlocal coupling…
We consider a domain $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R\!}^{\,2}$ with branched fractal boundary $\Gamma^{\infty}$ and parameter $\tau\in[1/2,\tau^{\ast}]$ introduced by Achdou and Tchou \cite{ACH08}, for $\tau^{\ast}\simeq 0.593465$, which acts as…
The analytical solution of the equation describing diffusion of intrinsic point defects has been obtained for a one-dimensional finite-length domain. This solution is intended for investigating and modeling the changes in defect…
We propose a boundary element method for the accurate solution of the cell-by-cell bidomain model of electrophysiology. The cell-by-cell model, also called Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) model, is a system of reaction-diffusion…
We consider a system of particles undergoing correlated diffusion with elastic boundary conditions on the half-line. By taking the large particle limit we establish existence and uniqueness for the limiting empirical measure valued process…
Recently, the problem of boundary stabilization for unstable linear constant-coefficient reaction-diffusion equation on N-balls has been solved by means of the backstepping method. However, the extension of this result to spatially-varying…