Convergence of a Time Discrete Scheme for a Chemotaxis-Consumption Model

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Abstract: In the present work we propose and study a time discrete scheme for the following chemotaxis-consumption model (for any sge1), partial_t u - Delta u = -

abla cdot (u

abla v), quad partial_t v - Delta v = - u^s v quad hbox{in (0,T)imesOmega,} endowed with isolated boundary conditions and initial conditions, where (u,v) model cell density and chemical signal concentration. The proposed scheme is defined via a reformulation of the model, using the auxiliary variable z=sqrtv+alpha2 combined with a Backward Euler scheme for the (u,z) problem and a upper truncation of u in the nonlinear chemotaxis and consumption terms. Then, two different ways of retrieving an approximation for the function v are provided. We prove the existence of solution to the time discrete scheme and establish uniform in time emph{a priori} estimates, yielding to the convergence of the scheme towards a weak solution (u,v) of the chemotaxis-consumption model.





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