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38/2018

Global phase diagrams of run-and-tumble dynamics: equidistribution, waves, and blowup

Kyungkeun Kang, Arnd Scheel and Angela Stevens

Abstract

For spatially one-dimensional run-and-tumble dynamics with mass conservation we develop a coarse phase diagram, that discriminates between global decay to equidistributed constant states, existence of spatially non-trivial waves, and finite time blowup of solutions. Motivated by counter-migrating ripples of high and low population density and fruiting body formation in myxobacteria, we identify phase boundaries as particular critical tumbling dynamics that allow for switching between these spatio-temporal phases upon slight changes in mass densities or parameter values.

Received:
May 30, 2018
Published:
Jun 4, 2018

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2019 Repository Open Access
Kyungkeun Kang, Arnd Scheel and Angela Stevens

Global phase diagrams of run-and-tumble dynamics : equidistribution, waves, and blowup

In: Nonlinearity, 32 (2019) 6, pp. 2128-2146