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MONATSHEFTE FUR MATHEMATIK
Volume 142, Issue 1-2, Pages 123-141Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00605-004-0234-7
Keywords
chemotaxis; drift-diffusion limits; kinetic models
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Kinetic models for chemotaxis, nonlinearly coupled to a Poisson equation for the chemo-attractant density, are considered. Under suitable assumptions on the turning kernel (including models introduced by Othmer, Dunbar and Alt), convergence in the macroscopic limit to a drift-diffusion model is proven. The drift-diffusion models derived in this way include the classical Keller-Segel model. Furthermore, sufficient conditions for kinetic models are given such that finite-time-blow-up does not occur. Examples are given satisfying these conditions, whereas the macroscopic limit problem is known to exhibit finite-time-blow-up. The main analytical tools are entropy techniques for the macroscopic limit as well as results from potential theory for the control of the chemo-attractant density.
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