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In this paper, we study the spatial propagation dynamics of a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with logistic source which reduces to the well-known Fisher-KPP equation without chemotaxis. It is known that for fast decaying initial functions, this system has a finite spreading speed. For slowly decaying initial functions, we show that the accelerating propagation will occur and chemotaxis does not affect the propagation mode determined by slowly decaying initial functions if the logistic damping is strong, that is, the system has the same upper and lower bounds of the accelerating propagation as for the classical Fisher-KPP equation. The main new idea of proving our results is the construction of auxiliary equations to overcome the lack of comparison principle due to chemotaxis.
This is part two of our study on the spreading properties of the Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion systems with a stable coexistence state. We focus on the case when the initial data are exponential decaying. By establishing a comparison principle for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we are able to apply the Hamilton-Jacobi approach for Fisher-KPP equation due to Freidlin, Evans and Souganidis. As a result, the exact formulas of spreading speeds and their dependence on initial data are derived. Our results indicate that sometimes the spreading speed of the slower species is nonlocally determined. Connections of our results with the traveling profile due to Tang and Fife, as well as the more recent spreading result of Girardin and Lam, will be discussed.
This paper investigates a high-dimensional chemotaxis system with consumption of chemoattractant begin{eqnarray*} left{begin{array}{l} u_t=Delta u- ablacdot(u abla v), v_t=Delta v-uv, end{array}right. end{eqnarray*} under homogeneous boundary conditions of Neumann type, in a bounded convex domain $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^n~(ngeq4)$ with smooth boundary. It is proved that if initial data satisfy $u_0in C^0(overline{Omega})$ and $v_0in W^{1,q}(Omega)$ for some $q>n$, the model possesses at least one global renormalized solution.
We investigate the propagating profiles of a degenerate chemotaxis model describing the bacteria chemotaxis and consumption of oxygen by aerobic bacteria, in particular, the effect of the initial attractant distribution on bacterial clustering. We prove that the compact support of solutions may shrink if the signal concentration satisfies a special structure, and show the finite speed propagating property without assuming the special structure on attractant concentration, and obtain an explicit formula of the population spreading speed in terms of model parameters. The presented results suggest that bacterial cluster formation can be affected by chemotactic attractants and density-dependent dispersal.
We investigate the Navier-Stokes initial boundary value problem in the half-plane $R^2_+$ with initial data $u_0 in L^infty(R^2_+)cap J_0^2(R^2_+)$ or with non decaying initial data $u_0in L^infty(R^2_+) cap J_0^p(R^2_+), p > 2$ . We introduce a technique that allows to solve the two-dimesional problem, further, but not least, it can be also employed to obtain weak solutions, as regards the non decaying initial data, to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes IBVP. This last result is the first of its kind.
In this paper, we address the local well-posedness of the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation when the initial data decays polynomially in the velocity variable. We consider the case of very soft potentials $gamma + 2s < 0$. Our main result completes the picture for local well-posedness in this decay class by removing the restriction $gamma + 2s > -3/2$ of previous works. Our approach is entirely based on the Carleman decomposition of the collision operator into a lower order term and an integro-differential operator similar to the fractional Laplacian. Interestingly, this yields a very short proof of local well-posedness when $gamma in (-3,0]$ and $s in (0,1/2)$ in a weighted $C^1$ space that we include as well.