On the well-posedness of a mathematical model of quorum-sensing in patchy biofilm communities

DOI10.1002/mma.1475zbMath1221.35214MaRDI QIDQ3087933

Hermann J. Eberl, Stefanie Sonner, Messoud A. Efendiev

Publication date: 17 August 2011

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.1475

zbMATH Keywords

well-posedness; biofilm; degenerate equations; quorum-sensing; two nonlinear diffusion effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations

92D25: Population dynamics (general)

35K65: Degenerate parabolic equations

92C17: Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.)