On a model for phase separation on biological membranes and its relation to the Ohta–Kawasaki equation

DOI10.1017/S0956792519000056zbMATH Open1504.35167arXiv1810.06654OpenAlexW2964308629WikidataQ113857458 ScholiaQ113857458MaRDI QIDQ5056705FDOQ5056705

Authors: Helmut Abels, Johannes Kampmann 

Publication date: 8 December 2022

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a detailed mathematical analysis of a model for phase separation on biological membranes which was recently proposed by Garcke, R"atz, R"oger and the second author. The model is an extended Cahn-Hilliard equation which contains additional terms to account for the active transport processes. We prove results on the existence and regularity of solutions, their long-time behaviour, and on the existence of stationary solutions. Moreover, we investigate two different asymptotic regimes. We study the case of large cytosolic diffusion and investigate the effect of an infinitely large affinity between membrane components. The first case leads to the reduction of coupled bulk-surface equations in the model to a system of surface equations with non-local contributions. Subsequently, we recover a variant of the well-known Ohta-Kawasaki equation as the limit for infinitely large affinity between membrane components.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06654

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zbMATH Keywords

Cahn-Hilliard equationphase separationreaction-diffusion systemsPDEs on surfacesOhta-Kawasaki equationinfinitely large affinity between membrane componentslarge cytosolic diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Cell biology (92C37) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic systems (35K52)

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