Singular limit of a degenerate chemotaxis-Fisher equation

DOI10.32917/HMJ/1150998073MaRDI QIDQ1885294zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fathi Dkhil

Publication date 28 October 2004

Published in Hiroshima Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.32917/hmj/1150998073

zbMATH Keywords

interface motionKeller-Segel modelsubsolutionssupersolutionstravelling wavezero Neumann boundary conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K45) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17)

Review text

The paper deals with a degenerate parabolic equation that arises in chemotaxis-growth models \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = \varepsilon \Delta (u^m)- \nabla . (u \nabla v) + \frac{1}{\varepsilon} u(1-u^p) \] in \(\Omega \times (0,T]\) with zero Neumann boundary conditions, initial condition \(u(x,0)=g^\varepsilon (x)\) in \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N\), \(m>1\), and a given smooth function \(v(x,t)\). The author studies the behaviour of the (weak) solution to this problem as \(\varepsilon \to 0\). Using the method of sub- and supersolutions, he proves that for suitable initial data \(g^\varepsilon\) with a compact support in \(\Omega\), \(u^\varepsilon \to u^0\) on \([0,T]\) for some \(T>0\). The limiting function \(u^0\) is the characteristic function of a smooth moving domain \(\Omega_t \subset\subset \Omega\), whose motion law is related to \(v\) through the critical velocity of a certain degenerate travelling Fisher wave problem. An example of radially symmetric case with non-trivial solutions is discussed.

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