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An Asymptotic Preserving Scheme for Kinetic Models for Chemotaxis Phenomena

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Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Special Issue on Mathematical modelling for complex systems: multi-agents methods. Guest Editor: Elena De Angelis

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In this paper, we propose a numerical approach to solve a kinetic model of chemotaxis phenomena. This scheme is shown to be uniformly stable with respect to the small parameter, consistent with the uid-di usion limit (Keller-Segel model). Our approach is based on the micro-macro decomposition which leads to an equivalent formulation of the kinetic model that couples a kinetic equation with macroscopic ones. This method is validated by various test cases and compared to other standard methods.

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2038-0909
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English
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Journal Subjects:
Mathematics, Numerical and Computational Mathematics, Applied Mathematics