Mathematical treatment of PDE model of chemotactic \textit{E. coli} colonies

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Abstract: We consider an initial-boundary value problem describing the formation of colony patterns of bacteria Escherichia coli. This model consists of reaction-diffusion equations coupled with the Keller-Segel system from the chemotaxis theory in a bounded domain, supplemented with zero-flux boundary conditions and with non-negative initial data. We answer questions on the global in time existence of solutions as well as on their large time behaviour. Moreover, we show that solutions of a related model may blow up in a finite time.


A model of formation of colonies of Escherichia coli bacteria is studied. This consists of three parabolic and one ordinary differential equations for the evolution of concentrations of active and inactive bacteria, a chemoattractant and a nutrient. Steady states of this chemotaxis-reaction system describing colonial patterns are proved to be locally stable. Numerical experiments show that those chevron-like patterns essentially depend on initial nutrient concentrations.



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