Critical chemotactic collapse

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2009-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/0909.2690v2

Physics Letters A, v. 374, 1678-1685 (2010)

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physleta.2010.01.068

A Keller-Segel model describes macroscopic dynamics of bacterial colonies and biological cells. Bacteria secret chemical which attracts other bacteria so that they move towards chemical gradient creating nonlocal attraction between bacteria. If bacterial density exceeds a critical value then the density collapses (blows up) in a finite time which corresponds to bacterial aggregation. Collapse in the Keller-Segel model has striking qualitative similarities with a nonlinear Schrodinger equation including critical collapse in two dimensions and supercritical in three dimensions. A self-similar solution near blow up point is studied in the critical case and it has a form of a rescaled steady state solution which contains a critical number of bacteria. Time dependence of scaling of that solution has square root scaling law with logarithmic corrections.

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