Generalised supersolutions with mass control for the Keller-Segel system with logarithmic sensitivity

The existence of generalised global supersolutions with a control upon the total muss is established for the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system with logarithmic sensitivity for any space dimension. It is verified that smooth supersolutions of this sort are actually classical solutions. Unlike the previously existing constructions, neither is the chemotactic sensitivity coefficient required to be small, nor is it necessary for the initial data to be radially symmetric. Keywords: chemotaxis; generalised supersolution; global existence; logarithmic sensitivit

Generalised global supersolutions with mass control for systems with taxis

The existence of generalised global supersolutions with a control upon the total mass is established for a wide family of parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis systems and general integrable initial data in any space dimension. It is verified that as long as a supersolution of this sort remains smooth, it coincides with the classical solution. At the same time, the proposed construction provides solvability beyond a blow-up time. The considered class of systems includes the basic form of the Keller-Segel model as well as the case of a chemorepellent.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1804.0533

Global existence for a degenerate haptotaxis model of tumor invasion under the go-or-grow dichotomy hypothesis

We propose and study a strongly coupled PDE-ODE-ODE system modeling cancer cell invasion through a tissue network under the go-or-grow hypothesis asserting that cancer cells can either move or proliferate. Hence our setting features two interacting cell populations with their mutual transitions and involves tissue-dependent degenerate diffusion and haptotaxis for the moving subpopulation. The proliferating cells and the tissue evolution are characterized by way of ODEs for the respective densities. We prove the global existence of weak solutions and illustrate the model behaviour by numerical simulations in a two-dimensional setting.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.0428

On a new transformation for generalised porous medium equations from weak solutions to classical

It is well-known that solutions for generalised porous medium equations are, in general, only H\"older continuous. In this note, we propose a new variable substitution for such equations which transforms weak solutions into classical

The Malliavin derivative and compactness: application to a degenerate PDE-SDE coupling

Compactness is one of the most versatile tools in the analysis of nonlinear PDEs and systems. Usually, compactness is established by means of some embedding theorem between functional spaces. Such theorems, in turn, rely on appropriate estimates for a function and its derivatives. While a similar result based on simultaneous estimates for the Malliavin and weak Sobolev derivatives is available for the Wiener-Sobolev spaces, it seems that it has not yet been widely used in the analysis of highly nonlinear parabolic problems with stochasticity. In the present work we apply this result in order to study compactness, existence of global solutions, and, as a by-product, the convergence of a semi-discretisation scheme for a prototypical degenerate PDE-SDE coupling

On an exponential attractor for a class of PDEs with degenerate diffusion and chemotaxis

In this article we deal with a class of strongly coupled parabolic systems that encompasses two different effects: degenerate diffusion and chemotaxis. Such classes of equations arise in the mesoscale level modeling of biomass spreading mechanisms via chemotaxis. We show the existence of an exponential attractor and, hence, of a finite-dimensional global attractor under certain 'balance conditions' on the order of the degeneracy and the growth of the chemotactic function

Global entropy solutions to a degenerate parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis system for flux-limited dispersal

Existence of global finite-time bounded entropy solutions to a parabolic-parabolic system proposed in [16] is established in bounded domains under no-flux boundary conditions for nonnegative bounded initial data. This modification of the classical Keller-Segel model features degenerate diffusion and chemotaxis that are both subject to flux-saturation. The approach is based on Schauder's fixed point theorem and calculus of functions of bounded variation