Critical mass of bacterial populations in a generalized Keller-Segel model. Analogy with the Chandrasekhar limiting mass of white dwarf stars

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 1999-2009

  Chavanis, Pierre Henri ^a   Sire, Clément ^a  

^a Lab de Physique Théorique   (France)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Generalized thermodynamics; Nonlinear mean field Fokker Planck equations; Self gravitating Brownian particles

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHEMOTAXIS; CRITICAL MASS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 38349025683     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.10.075     Document Type: Article

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