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Cells encounter a diverse array of physical and chemical signals as they navigate their natural surroundings. However, their response to the simultaneous presence of multiple cues remains elusive. Particularly, the impact of topography…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Valeria Cuentas , Elio Espejo

The flux limited Keller-Segel (FLKS) system is a macroscopic model describing bacteria motion by chemotaxis which takes into account saturation of the velocity. The hyper-bolic form and some special parabolic forms have been derived from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Benoît Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet , Zhian Wang

The Patlak-Keller-Segel equation is a canonical model of chemotaxis to describe self-organized aggregation of organisms interacting with chemical signals. We investigate a variant of this model, assuming that the organisms exert effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-30 Seung Ki Baek , Beom Jun Kim

While the role of local interactions in nonequilibrium phase transitions is well studied, a fundamental understanding of the effects of long-range interactions is lacking. We study the critical dynamics of reproducing agents subject to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-25 Jasper van der Kolk , Florian Rasshofer , Richard Swiderski , Astik Haldar , Abhik Basu , Erwin Frey

We study the following Keller-Segel chemotaxis system with logistic source and nonlinear secretion: \begin{align*} u_t=\Delta u- \nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)+\kappa(|x|)u-\mu(|x|)u^p\quad\text{and}\quad 0=\Delta v-v+u^\gamma, \end{align*} where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Gurusamy Arumugam , Asha K. Dond , André H. Erhardt

We derive general kinetic and hydrodynamic models of chemotactic aggregation that describe certain features of the morphogenesis of biological colonies (like bacteria, amoebae, endothelial cells or social insects). Starting from a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Clement Sire

The Keller-Segel (KS) chemotaxis system is used to describe the overall behavior of a collection of cells under the influence of chemotaxis. However, solving the KS chemotaxis system and generating its aggregation patterns remain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Yani Feng , Michael K. Ng , Zhiwen Zhang

In this paper, we study the coupled Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system, which models chemotaxis occuring in ambient viscous fluid. We consider this nonlinear, nonlocal system on a periodic strip, equipped with homogeneous Neumann boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Elie Abdo , Zhongtian Hu

This paper is concerned with a parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system where both diffusive and chemotactic coefficients (motility functions) depend on the chemical signal density. This system was originally proposed by Keller and Segel in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Zhi-An Wang

Myxobacteria aggregate and generate fruiting bodies in the soil to survive under starvation conditions. Considering soil as a porous medium, the biological mechanism and dynamic behavior of myxobacteria and slime (chemoattractants) affected…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Fugui Ma , Wenyi Tian , Weihua Deng

A parabolic-parabolic (Patlak-) Keller-Segel model in up to three space dimensions with nonlinear cell diffusion and an additional nonlinear cross-diffusion term is analyzed. The main feature of this model is that there exists a new entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-18 José Antonio Carrillo , Sabine Hittmeir , Ansgar Jüngel

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

We study the chemotaxis-fluid system \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{array}{r@{\,}l@{\quad}l@{\,}c} n_{t}&=\Delta n-\nabla\!\cdot(n\nabla c)-u\cdot\!\nabla n,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\ c_{t}&=\Delta c-c+f(n)-u\cdot\!\nabla c,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Tobias Black

This article presents a partial differential equation (PDE) of Keller-Segel (KS) type that reproduces patterns commonly observed during the growth of brain microvasculature. We provide mathematical insights into the mechanisms underlying…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-04 B Ambrosio , A Garroudji , S. Fitzsimons , H Zaag , F. M. Elahi

This paper is devoted to constructing approximate solutions for the classical Keller--Segel model governing \emph{chemotaxis}. It consists of a system of nonlinear parabolic equations, where the unknowns are the average density of cells (or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Juan Vicente Gutiérrez-Santacreu , José Rafael Rodríguez-Galván

These notes aim to provide a deeper insight on the specifics of two articles dealing with chemotaxis models with nonlinear production. More precisely, we are referring to the papers "Boundedness of solutions to a quasilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Yuya Tanaka , Giuseppe Viglialoro , Tomomi Yokota

We consider an inertial model of chemotactic aggregation generalizing the Keller-Segel model and we study the linear dynamical stability of an infinite and homogeneous distribution of cells (bacteria, amoebae, endothelial cells,...) when…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We study a doubly parabolic Keller-Segel system in one spatial dimension, with diffusions given by fractional laplacians. We obtain several local and global well-posedness results for the subcritical and critical cases (for the latter we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Jan Burczak , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

We show that the Keller-Segel model in one dimension with Neumann boundary conditions and quadratic cellular diffusion has an intricate phase transition diagram depending on the chemosensitivity strength. Explicit computations allow us to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Jose A. Carrillo , Xinfu Chen , Qi Wang , Zhian Wang , Lu Zhang

Three-dimensional cultures of cells are gaining popularity as an in vitro improvement over 2D Petri dishes. In many such experiments, cells have been found to organize in aggregates. We present new results of three-dimensional in vitro…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-01 Federica Bubba , Camille Pouchol , Nathalie Ferrand , Guillaume Vidal , Luis Almeida , Benoıt Perthame , Michèle Sabbah