A PDE model for chemotaxis with logarithmic sensitivity and logistic growth

Authors Padi Fuster Aguilera, Vincent R. Martinez, Kyle Kun Zhao

Publication date 18 December 2020

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the initial-boundary value problem and its asymptotic behavior for a repulsive chemotaxis model with logarithmic sensitivity and logistic growth. We establish global well-posedness of strong solutions for large initial data with Neumann boundary conditions and, moreover, establish the qualitative result that both the population density and chemical concentration asymptotically converge to constant states with the population density specifically converging to its carrying capacity. We additionally prove that the vanishing chemical diffusivity limit holds in this regime. Lastly, we provide numerical confirmation of the rigorous qualitative results, as well as numerical simulations that demonstrate a separation of scales phenomenon.

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