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MATHEMATICAL MODELS & METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES
卷 14, 期 10, 页码 1561-1583出版社
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202504003726
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Langevin equation; moment closure; biological modeling
In the Langevin or Ornstein-Uhlenbeck approach to diffusion, stochastic increments are applied to the velocity rather than to the space variable. The density of this process satisfies a linear partial differential equation of the general form of a transport equation which is hyperbolic with respect to the space variable but parabolic with respect to the velocity variable, the Klein-Kramers or simply Kramers equation. This modeling approach allows for a more detailed description of individual movement and orientation dependent interaction than the frequently used reaction diffusion framework. For the Kramers equation, moments are computed, the infinite system of moment equations is closed at several levels, and telegraph and diffusion equations are derived as approximations. Then nonlinearities are introduced such that the semi-linear reaction Kramers equation describes particles which move and interact on the same time-scale. Also for these nonlinear problems a moment approach is feasible and yields nonlinear damped wave equations as limiting cases. We apply the moment method to the Kramers equation for chemotactic movement and obtain the classical Patlak-Keller-Segel model. We discuss similarities between chemotactic movement of bacteria and gravitational movement of physical particles.
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