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We show that the Keller-Segel model in one dimension with Neumann boundary conditions and quadratic cellular diffusion has an intricate phase transition diagram depending on the chemosensitivity strength. Explicit computations allow us to find a myriad of symmetric and asymmetric stationary states whose stability properties are mostly studied via free energy decreasing numerical schemes. The metastability behavior and staircased free energy decay are also illustrated via these numerical simulations.
In this paper, we consider the initial Neumann boundary value problem for a degenerate kinetic model of Keller--Segel type. The system features a signal-dependent decreasing motility function that vanishes asymptotically, i.e., degeneracies may take place as the concentration of signals tends to infinity. In the present work, we are interested in the boundedness of classical solutions when the motility function satisfies certain decay rate assumptions. Roughly speaking, in the two-dimensional setting, we prove that classical solution is globally bounded if the motility function decreases slower than an exponential speed at high signal concentrations. In higher dimensions, boundedness is obtained when the motility decreases at certain algebraical speed. The proof is based on the comparison methods developed in our previous work cite{FJ19a,FJ19b} together with a modified Alikakos--Moser type iteration. Besides, new estimations involving certain weighted energies are also constructed to establish the boundedness.
We exploit the existence and nonlinear stability of boundary spike/layer solutions of the Keller-Segel system with logarithmic singular sensitivity in the half space, where the physical zero-flux and Dirichlet boundary conditions are prescribed. We first prove that, under above boundary conditions, the Keller-Segel system admits a unique boundary spike-layer steady state where the first solution component (bacterial density) of the system concentrates at the boundary as a Dirac mass and the second solution component (chemical concentration) forms a boundary layer profile near the boundary as the chemical diffusion coefficient tends to zero. Then we show that this boundary spike-layer steady state is asymptotically nonlinearly stable under appropriate perturbations. As far as we know, this is the first result obtained on the global well-posedness of the singular Keller-Segel system with nonlinear consumption rate. We introduce a novel strategy of relegating the singularity, via a Cole-Hopf type transformation, to a nonlinear nonlocality which is resolved by the technique of taking antiderivatives, i.e. working at the level of the distribution function. Then, we carefully choose weight functions to prove our main results by suitable weighted energy estimates with Hardys inequality that fully captures the dissipative structure of the system.
In this paper we consider a stochastic Keller-Segel type equation, perturbed with random noise. We establish that for special types of random pertubations (i.e. in a divergence form), the equation has a global weak solution for small initial data. Furthermore, if the noise is not in a divergence form, we show that the solution has a finite time blowup (with nonzero probability) for any nonzero initial data. The results on the continuous dependence of solutions on the small random perturbations, alongside with the existence of local strong solutions, are also derived in this work.
Based on some elementary estimates for the space-time derivatives of the heat kernel, we use a bootstrapping approach to establish the optimal decay rates for the $L^q(mathbb{R}^d)$ ($1leq qleqinfty$, $dinmathbb{N}$) norm of the space-time derivatives of solutions to the (modified) Patlak-Keller-Segel equations with initial data in $L^1(mathbb{R}^d)$, which implies the joint space-time analyticity of solutions. When the $L^1(mathbb{R}^d)$ norm of the initial datum is small, the upper bound for the decay estimates is global in time, which yields a lower bound on the growth rate of the radius of space-time analyticity in time. As a byproduct, the space analyticity is obtained for any initial data in $L^1(mathbb{R}^d)$. The decay estimates and space-time analyticity are also established for solutions bounded in both space and time variables. The results can be extended to a more general class of equations, including the Navier-Stokes equations.
This paper is concerned with traveling wave solutions of the following full parabolic Keller-Segel chemotaxis system with logistic source, begin{equation} begin{cases} u_t=Delta u -chi ablacdot(u abla v)+u(a-bu),quad xinmathbb{R}^N cr tau v_t=Delta v-lambda v +mu u,quad xin mathbb{R}^N, end{cases}(1) end{equation} where $chi, mu,lambda,a,$ and $b$ are positive numbers, and $tauge 0$. Among others, it is proved that if $b>2chimu$ and $tau geq frac{1}{2}(1-frac{lambda}{a})_{+} ,$ then for every $cge 2sqrt{a}$, (1) has a traveling wave solution $(u,v)(t,x)=(U^{tau,c}(xcdotxi-ct),V^{tau,c}(xcdotxi-ct))$ ($forall, xiinmathbb{R}^N$) connecting the two constant steady states $(0,0)$ and $(frac{a}{b},frac{mu}{lambda}frac{a}{b})$, and there is no such solutions with speed $c$ less than $2sqrt{a}$, which improves considerably the results established in cite{SaSh3}, and shows that (1) has a minimal wave speed $c_0^*=2sqrt a$, which is independent of the chemotaxis.