Stationary solutions of Keller-Segel-type crowd motion and herding models: multiplicity and dynamical stability (Q890770)

Two models for crowd motion and herding are studied. Each of the models is of Keller-Segel type and involves two parabolic equations, one for the evolution of the density and one for the evolution of a mean field potential. The radial stationary solutions, which are characterized as critical points of an energy functional, are classified together with their multiplicities. A kind of variational and dynamical stability in the neighborhood of a stationary solution are studied in terms of the spectral properties of the linearized evolution operator. In certain cases, two dynamically stable stationary solutions exist. The qualitative properties of the solutions using theoretical methods and numerical computations are also considered.