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We study the solutions of the two-dimensional Keller-Segel system describing chemotaxis. The Keller-Segel system as well as the properties of the blow-up set has been extensively studied. In this paper we obtain generalized solutions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-02 S. Luckhaus , Y. Sugiyama , J. J. L. Velázquez

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

The Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system governs chemotaxis in liquid environments. This system is to be solved for the organism and chemoattractant densities and for the fluid velocity and pressure. It is known that if the total initial cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Jesús Bonilla , Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu

We consider a generalized class of Keller-Segel models describing the chemotaxis of biological populations (bacteria, amoebae, endothelial cells, social insects,...). We show the analogy with nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equations and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Chemotaxis allows single cells to self-organize at the population level, as classically described by Keller-Segel models. We show that chemotactic aggregation can be understood using a generalized Maxwell construction based on the balance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Henrik Weyer , David Muramatsu , Erwin Frey

Aggregation equations and Patlak-Keller-Segel (PKS) models for chemotaxis with nonlinear diffusion are popular models for nonlocal aggregation phenomenon and are a source of a number of interesting mathematical problems in nonlinear PDE.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Jacob Bedrossian , Nancy Rodriguez

We study the regularity and large-time behavior of a crowd of species driven by chemo-tactic interactions. What distinguishes the different species is the way they interact with the rest of the crowd: the collective motion is driven by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Siming He , Eitan Tadmor

We investigate nonlinear dynamics near an unstable constant equilibrium in the classical Keller-Segel model. Given any general perturbation of magnitude $\delta$, we prove that its nonlinear evolution is dominated by the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yan Guo , Hyung Ju Hwang

We consider the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis with a nonlinear diffusion coefficent and a singular sensitivity function. We show the existence of travelling waves for wave speeds above a critical value, and establish local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Martin Meyries

We consider a class of logarithmic Keller-Segel type systems modeling the spatio-temporal behavior of either chemotactic cells or criminal activities in spatial dimensions two and higher. Under certain assumptions on parameter values and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Jaewook Ahn , Kyungkeun Kang , Jihoon Lee

We investigate the one-dimensional Keller-Segel model where the diffusion is replaced by a non-local operator, namely the fractional diffusion with exponent $0<\alpha\leq 2$. We prove some features related to the classical two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Nikolaos Bournaveas , Vincent Calvez

We consider the phenomenon of collapse in the critical Keller-Segel equation (KS) which models chemotactic aggregation of micro-organisms underlying many social activities, e.g. fruiting body development and biofilm formation. Also KS…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-08-31 S. I. Dejak , P. M. Lushnikov , Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , I. M. Sigal

In this paper, we investigate the long-time dynamics of a repulsive Keller-Segel chemotaxis system. The model features negative chemotaxis, logistic growth and a cell death term, accounting for a lethal chemorepellent that is self-produced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Federico Herrero-Hervás , Mihaela Negreanu

This paper investigates the Keller-Segel model with quadratic cellular diffusion over a disk in $\mathbb R^2$ with a focus on the formation of its nontrivial patterns. We obtain explicit formulas of radially symmetric stationary solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Lin Chen , Fanze Kong , Qi Wang

The Keller-Segel equations are widely used for describing chemotaxis in biology. Recently, a new fully discrete scheme for this model was proposed in [46], mass conservation, positivity and energy decay were proved for the proposed scheme,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Wenbin Chen , Qianqian Liu , Jie Shen

In this paper, we utilize the De Giorgi iteration to quantitatively analyze the upper bound of solutions for Keller-Segel type systems. The refined upper bound estimate presented here has broad applications in determining large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Mengyao Ding , Yuzhou Fang , Chao Zhang

We study the effect of advection on the aggregation and pattern formation in chemotactic systems described by Keller-Segel type models. The evolution of small perturbations is studied analytically in the linear regime complemented by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Javier Muñoz-García , Zoltán Neufeld

In this paper, we propose and study a stochastic aggregation-diffusion equation of the Keller-Segel (KS) type for modeling the chemotaxis in dimensions $d=2,3$. Unlike the classical deterministic KS system, which only allows for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Hui Huang , Jinniao Qiu

How can repulsive and attractive forces, acting on a conservative system, create stable traveling patterns or branching instabilities? We have proposed to study this question in the framework of the hyperbolic Keller-Segel system with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Benoit Perthame , Christian Schmeiser , Min Tang , Nicolas Vauchelet

The Keller-Segel partial differential equation is a two-dimensional model for chemotaxis. When the total mass of the initial density is one, it is known to exhibit blow-up in finite time as soon as the sensitivity $\chi$ of bacteria to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Nicolas Fournier , Benjamin Jourdain