On a nonlinear flux-limited equation arising in the transport of morphogens

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Abstract: Motivated by a mathematical model for the transport of morphogenes in biological systems, we study existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions for a mixed initial-boundary value problem associated with a nonlinear flux--limited diffusion system. From a mathematical point of view the problem behaves more as an hyperbolic system that a parabolic one.


The authors study a relativistic heat equation as a simplified version of a mathematical model for transport of morphogens in biological systems. Existence and uniqueness of so called ``entropy solutions are proved for the associated boundary-initial value problem. Similar to other flux-limited diffusion systems, the problem exhibits more hyperbolic than parabolic behavior. Consequently, the solution techniques utilized combine methods used for parabolic and hyperbolic problems.











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