Radial boundary layers for the singular Keller-Segel model

MaRDI QIDQ6350874zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Qianqian Hou

Publication date 9 October 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the diffusion limit (as $vaightarrow0$) of radial solutions to a chemotaxis system with logarithmic singular sensitivity in a bounded interval with mixed Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. We use a Cole-Hopf type transformation to resolve the logarithmic singularity and prove that the solution of the transformed system has a boundary-layer profile as $vao0$, where the boundary layer thickness is of $mathcalO(v{a}^{alpha})$ with $0<alpha<frac12$. By transferring the results back to the original chemotaxis model via Cole-Hopf transformation, we find that boundary layer profile is present at the gradient of solutions and the solution itself is uniformly convergent with respect to $va>0$.

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