High-Order Decoupled and Bound Preserving Local Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for a Class of Chemotaxis Models

In this paper,we explore bound preserving and high-order accurate local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)schemes to solve a class of chemotaxis models,including the classical Keller-Segel(KS)model and two other density-dependent problems.We use the convex splitting method,the variant energy quadratization method,and the scalar auxiliary variable method coupled with the LDG method to construct first-order temporal accurate schemes based on the gradient flow structure of the models.These semi-implicit schemes are decoupled,energy stable,and can be extended to high accuracy schemes using the semi-implicit spectral deferred correction method.Many bound preserving DG discretizations are only worked on explicit time integration methods and are difficult to get high-order accuracy.To overcome these difficulties,we use the Lagrange multipliers to enforce the implicit or semi-implicit LDG schemes to satisfy the bound constraints at each time step.This bound preserving limiter results in the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition,which can be solved by an efficient active set semi-smooth Newton method.Various numerical experiments illustrate the high-order accuracy and the effect of bound preserving.

Stability and metastability in a chemotaxis model

This work studies the stability and metastability of stationary patterns in a diffusionchemotaxis model without cell proliferation.We first establish the interval of unstable wave modes of the homogeneous steady state,and show that the chemotactic flux is the key mechanism for pattern formation.Then,we treat the chemotaxis coefficient as a bifurcation parameter to obtain the asymptotic expressions of steady states.Based on this,we derive the sufficient conditions for the stability of one-step pattern,and prove the metastability of two or more step patterns.All the analytical results are demonstrated by numerical simulations.

Global Fujita-Kato's Type Solutions and Long-time Behavior for the Multidimensional Chemotaxis Model

We establish the global well-posedness for the multidimensional chemotaxis model with some classes of large initial data,especially the case when the rate of variation of ln v0(v0 is the chemical concentration)contains high oscillation and the initial density near the equilibrium is allowed to have large oscillation in 3D.Besides,we show the optimal time-decay rates of the strong solutions under an additional perturbation assumption,which include specially the situations of d=2,3 and improve the previous time-decay rates.Our method mainly relies on the introduce of the effective velocity and the application of the localization in Fourier spaces.

SOLVABILITY OF A PARABOLIC-HYPERBOLIC TYPE CHEMOTAXIS SYSTEM IN 1-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN

In this paper, we use contraction mapping principle, operator-theoretic approach and some uniform estimates to establish local solvability of the parabolic-hyperbolic type chemotaxis system with fixed boundary in 1-dimensional domain. In addition, local solvability of the free boundary problem is considered by straightening the free boundary.