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January  2015, 20(1): 1-21. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.1

Reaction, diffusion and chemotaxis in wave propagation

Shangbing Ai 1, , Wenzhang Huang 1, and  Zhi-An Wang 2,

1. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, United States
2. 

Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Received  June 2014 Published  November 2014

By constructing an invariant set in the three dimensional space, we establish the existence of traveling wave solutions to a reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis model describing biological processes such as the bacterial chemotactic movement in response to oxygen and the initiation of angiogenesis. The minimal wave speed is shown to exist and the role of each process of reaction, diffusion and chemotaxis in the wave propagation is investigated. Our results reveal three essential biological implications: (1) the cell growth increases the wave speed; (2) the chemotaxis must be strong enough to make a contribution to the increment of the wave speed; (3) the diffusion rate plays a role in increasing the wave speed only when the cell growth is present.
Keywords: traveling waves, Reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis, minimal wave speed., cell growth.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35C07, 35K55, 46N60, 62P10, 92C1.
Citation: Shangbing Ai, Wenzhang Huang, Zhi-An Wang. Reaction, diffusion and chemotaxis in wave propagation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2015, 20 (1) : 1-21. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.1
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[2]

J. Adler, Chemoreceptors in bacteria, Science, 166 (1969), 1588-1597. doi: 10.1126/science.166.3913.1588.  Google Scholar

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[5]

L. Corrias, B. Perthame and H. Zaag, A chemotaxis model motivated by angiogenesis, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris. Ser. I., 336 (2003), 141-146. doi: 10.1016/S1631-073X(02)00008-0.  Google Scholar

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M. A. Fontelos, A. Friedman and B. Hu, Mathematical analysis of a model for the initiation of angiogenesis, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 33 (2002), 1330-1355. doi: 10.1137/S0036141001385046.  Google Scholar

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[10]

E. F. Keller and L. A. Segel, Traveling bands of chemotactic bacteria: A theorectical analysis, J. Theor. Biol., 30 (1971), 235-248. doi: 10.1016/0022-5193(71)90051-8.  Google Scholar

[11]

H. A. Levine, B. D. Sleeman and M. Nilsen-Hamilton, Mathematical modeling of the onset of capillary formation initiating angiogenesis, J. Math. Biol., 42 (2001), 195-238. doi: 10.1007/s002850000037.  Google Scholar

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H. A. Levine and B. D. Sleeman, A system of reaction diffusion equations arising in the theory of reinforced random walks, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 57 (1997), 683-730. doi: 10.1137/S0036139995291106.  Google Scholar

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[14]

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[15]

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[17]

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[18]

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[19]

G. Nadin, B. Perthame and L. Ryzhik, Traveling waves for the Keller-Segel system with fisher birth terms, Interfaces Free Bound., 10 (2008), 517-538. doi: 10.4171/IFB/200.  Google Scholar

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T. Nagai and T. Ikeda, Traveling waves in a chemotaxis model, J. Math. Biol., 30 (1991), 169-184. doi: 10.1007/BF00160334.  Google Scholar

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, National Cancer Institute,, , ().   Google Scholar

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R. Nossal, Boundary movement of chemotactic bacterial population, Math. Biosci., 13 (1972), 397-406. doi: 10.1016/0025-5564(72)90058-2.  Google Scholar

[23]

C. H. Ou and W. Yuan, Traveling wavefronts in a volume-filling chemotaxis model, SIAM Appl. Dyn. Sys., 8 (2009), 390-416. doi: 10.1137/08072797X.  Google Scholar

[24]

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[25]

G. Rosen, Analytically solution to the initial-value problem for traveling bands of chemotaxis bacteria, J. Theor. Biol., 49 (1975), 311-321. Google Scholar

[26]

G. Rosen, Steady-state distribution of bacteria chemotactic toward oxygen, Bull. Math. Biol., 40 (1978), 671-674. doi: 10.1007/BF02460738.  Google Scholar

[27]

G. Rosen, Theoretical significance of the condition $\delta=2 \mu$ in bacterical chemotaxis, Bull. Math. Biol., 45 (1983), 151-153. Google Scholar

[28]

G. Rosen and S. Baloga, On the stability of steadily propogating bands of chemotactic bacteria, Math. Biosci., 24 (1975), 273-279. doi: 10.1016/0025-5564(75)90080-2.  Google Scholar

[29]

H. Schwetlick, Traveling waves for chemotaxis systems, Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 3 (2003), 476-478. doi: 10.1002/pamm.200310508.  Google Scholar

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Z. A. Wang, Wavefront of an angiogenesis model, Discrete Cont. Dyn. Syst.-Series B, 17 (2012), 2849-2860. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.2849.  Google Scholar

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