Nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equations. Application to the chemotaxis of biological populations

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DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2008-00142-9zbMATH Open1189.35335arXiv0709.1829OpenAlexW1992223557MaRDI QIDQ978669FDOQ978669


Authors: Pierre-Henri Chavanis Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 25 June 2010

Published in: The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a general class of nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equations in relation with an effective generalized thermodynamical formalism. We show that these equations describe several physical systems such as: chemotaxis of bacterial populations, Bose-Einstein condensation in the canonical ensemble, porous media, generalized Cahn-Hilliard equations, Kuramoto model, BMF model, Burgers equation, Smoluchowski-Poisson system for self-gravitating Brownian particles, Debye-Huckel theory of electrolytes, two-dimensional turbulence... In particular, we show that nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equations can provide generalized Keller-Segel models describing the chemotaxis of biological populations. As an example, we introduce a new model of chemotaxis incorporating both effects of anomalous diffusion and exclusion principle (volume filling). Therefore, the notion of generalized thermodynamics can have applications for concrete physical systems. We also consider nonlinear mean field Fokker-Planck equations in phase space and show the passage from the generalized Kramers equation to the generalized Smoluchowski equation in a strong friction limit. Our formalism is simple and illustrated by several explicit examples corresponding to Boltzmann, Tsallis and Fermi-Dirac entropies among others.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1829




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