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MiS Preprint
9/2009

Simultaneous Finite Time Blow-up in a Two-Species Model for Chemotaxis

Elio Eduardo Espejo, Angela Stevens and Juan J.L. Velazquez

Abstract

A system of two classical chemotaxis equations, coupled with an elliptic equation for an attractive chemical, is analyzed. Depending on the parameter values for the three respective diffusion coefficients and the two chemotactic sensitivities in the radial symmetric setting, conditions are given for global existence of solutions and finite time blow-up. A question of interest is, whether there exist parameter regimes, where the two chemotactic species differ in their long time behavior. This questions arises in the context of differential chemotactic behavior in early aggregates of Dictyostelium discoideum.

Received:
Feb 18, 2009
Published:
Feb 24, 2009

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2009 Repository Open Access
Elio Eduardo Espejo Arenas, Angela Stevens and Juan J. L. Velázquez

Simultaneous finite time blow-up in a two-species model for chemotaxis

In: Analysis, 29 (2009) 3, pp. 317-338