A Keller-Segel type taxis model with ecological interpretation and boundedness due to gradient nonlinearities

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Authors: Sachiko Ishida, Johannes Lankeit, G. Viglialoro 

Publication date: 21 June 2023

Abstract: We introduce a novel gradient-based damping term into a Keller-Segel type taxis model with motivation from ecology and consider the following system equipped with homogeneous Neumann-boundary conditions: �egin{equation} �egin{cases} u_t= Delta u - chi

abla cdot (u abla v)+a u^alpha-b u^�eta-c|

abla u|^gamma,\ au v_t=Delta v-v+u .\ end{cases} end{equation} The problem is formulated in a bounded and smooth domain $Omega$ of $mathbb{R}^N$, with $Ngeq2$, for some positive numbers $a,b,c,chi>0$, $auin0,1$, $gammageq1$, $$. As far as we know, Keller-Segel models with gradient-dependent sources are new in the literature and, accordingly, beyond giving a reasonable ecological interpretation the objective of the paper is twofold: 1.) to provide a rigorous analysis concerning the local existence and exensibility criterion for a class of models generalizing the above problem, obtained by replacing $$ with $f(u)-g(ablau)$; 2.) to establish sufficient conditions on the data of the problem itself, such that it admits a unique classical solution $(u,v)$, for $T_{max}=infty$ and with both $u$ and $v$ bounded. We handle 1.) whenever appropriately regular initial distributions $u(x,0)=u_0(x)geq0$, $auv(x,0)=au{v}_0(x)geq0$ are considered and $f$ and $g$ obey some regularity properties and, moreover, some growth restrictions. Further, as to 2.), for the same initial data considered in the previous case, global boundedness of solutions is proven for any $auin0,1$, provided that $frac2NN+1<gammaleq2$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Animal behavior (92D50) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17)

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