Existence of global solutions of a macroscopic model of cellular motion in a chemotactic field

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1645-1648

  Alber, Mark ^a   Gejji, Richard ^a   Kazmierczak, Bogdan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cellular motion; Chemotaxis; Continuous limit; Global existence; Nonlinear diffusion; Reaction diffusion systems

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MOTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTINUOUS LIMIT; GLOBAL EXISTENCE; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 70349096299     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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