Global existence results for complex hyperbolic models of bacterial chemotaxis

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1239-1260

  Erban, Radek ^a   Hwang, Hyung Ju ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Chemotaxis; Collective behaviour; Global existence; Internal dynamics; Transport equation; Velocity jump process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750520702     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2006.6.1239     Document Type: Article

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