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We propose and study a class of parabolic-ODE models involving chemotaxis and haptotaxis of a species following signals indirectly produced by another, non-motile one. The setting is motivated by cancer invasion mediated by interactions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Christina Surulescu , Michael Winkler

This paper investigates the repulsive chemotaxis-consumption model \begin{align*} \partial_t u &= \nabla \cdot (D(u) \nabla u) + \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v), \\ 0 &= \Delta v - uv \end{align*} in an $n$-dimensional ball, $n \ge 3$, where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Jaewook Ahn , Kyungkeun Kang , Dongkwang Kim

We consider a two-species chemotaxis model in $\R^d(d \ge 3)$ featuring nonlinear porous medium-type diffusion and nonlocal attractive power-law interaction. Here, the nonlinear diffusion is chosen to be $1/m_1+1/m_2=(d+2)/d$ in such a way…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Shen Bian

In bounded $n$-dimensonal domains with $n\ge 1$, this manuscript examines an initial-boundary value problem for the system \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_{tt} = \nabla \cdot (\gamma(\Theta) \nabla u_t) + a \nabla \cdot (\gamma(\Theta) \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Leander Claes , Michael Winkler

In this paper, a reaction-diffusion system modeling injection of a chemotherapeutic drug on the surface of a living tissue during a treatment for cancer patients is studied. The system describes the interaction of the chemotherapeutic drug…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Jeff Morgan , Bao Quoc Tang , Hong-Ming Yin

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamics of the system of time-delay differential equations (DDEs) \begin{equation*} \begin{split} \dot{T}(t)&=T(t) f(t,T(t))-\gamma E(t)T(t),\\ \dot{E}(t)&=\sigma+…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Pablo Amster , Andrés Rivera , John A. Arredondo

This paper studies a chemotaxis system where cells move in response to a chemical signal within a confined habitat. The model includes external source terms that combine local and nonlocal growth with dampening effects. The main focus is on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Rafael Diaz Fuentes , Fatma Gamze Duzgun , Silvia Frassu , Giuseppe Viglialoro

This series of papers is concerned with the global solvability, boundedness, regularity, and uniqueness of weak solutions to the following parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis system with a logistic source and chemical consumption:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Zulaihat Hassan , Wenxian Shen , Yuming Paul Zhang

We study a doubly tactic resource consumption model \bess \left\{\begin{array}{lll} u_t=\tr u-\nabla\cd(u\nabla w),\\[1mm] v_t=\tr v-\nabla\cd(v\nabla u)+v(1-v^{\beta-1}),\\[1mm] w_t=\tr w-(u+v)w-w+r \end{array}\right. \eess in a smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Jianping Wang

Spatial interactions between cancer and immune cells, as well as the recognition of tumour antigens by cells of the immune system, play a key role in the immune response against solid tumours. The existing mathematical models generally…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-05 Fiona R Macfarlane , Mark AJ Chaplain , Tommaso Lorenzi

The combination of cytotoxic therapies and anti-angiogenic agents is emerging as a most promising strategy in the treatment of malignant tumors. However, the timing and sequencing of these treatments seem to play essential roles in…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-13 M. Kohandel , C. A. Haselwandter , M. Kardar , S. Sengupta , S. Sivaloganathan

Solutions $(u, v)$ to the chemotaxis system \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u_t = \nabla \cdot ( (u+1)^{m-1} \nabla u - u (u+1)^{q-1} \nabla v), \\ \tau v_t = \Delta v - v + u \end{cases} \end{align*} in a ball $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$, $n…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Mario Fuest

The classical macroscopic chemotaxis equations have previously been derived from an individual-based description of the tactic response of cells that use a "run-and-tumble" strategy in response to environmental cues. Here we derive…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Radek Erban , Hans G. Othmer

Immunotherapy is currently regarded as the most promising treatment to fight against cancer. This is particularly true in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, an indolent neoplastic disease of B-lymphocytes which eventually causes…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-20 Diego Samuel Rodrigues , Paulo Fernando de Arruda Mancera , Tiago de Carvalho , Luiz Fernando Gonçalves

Perhaps the most classical diffusion model for chemotaxis is the Keller-Segel system $\begin{equation} \begin{cases} u_{t} =\Delta u - \nabla \cdot(u \nabla v) \ \ \ \text{in } \mathbb{R}^2\times(0,T),\\[5pt] v =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Federico Buseghin , Juan Davila , Manuel del Pino , Monica Musso

This paper studies a fractional attraction-repulsion system with generalized logistic source and nonlinear productions: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &u_t = -(-\Delta)^\alpha u - \chi_1 \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + \chi_2 \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Liyan Song , Qingchun Li , Chengyuan Qu

This paper deals with the homogeneous Neumann boundary-value problem for the chemotaxis-consumption system \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{array}{llc} u_t=\Delta u-\chi\nabla\cdot (u\nabla v)+\kappa u-\mu u^2,\\ v_t=\Delta v-uv, \end{array}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Johannes Lankeit , Yulan Wang

We present a model for the interaction dynamics of lymphocytes-tumor cells population. This model reproduces all known states for the tumor. Futherly,we develop it taking into account periodical immunotheraphy treatment with cytokines…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Sotolongo-Costa , L. Morales Molina , D. Rodriguez Perez , J. C. Antoranz , M. Chacon Reyes

This paper deals with nonnegative solutions of the Neumann initial-boundary value problem for the fully parabolic chemotaxis-growth system $ (u_{\varepsilon})_t$ $=\Delta u_{\varepsilon} - \varepsilon \nabla \cdot ( u_\varepsilon \nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Johannes Lankeit , Masaaki Mizukami

This work considers the Keller-Segel consumption system \begin{eqnarray*} \left\{ \begin{array}{llll} u_t=\Delta (u\phi(v))+au-bu^\gamma,\quad &x\in \Omega,\quad t>0,\\ v_t=\Delta v-uv,\quad &x\in\Omega,\quad t>0 \end{array} \right.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Liangchen Wang