Remarks on a population-level model of chemotaxis: advection-diffusion approximation and simulations

Zahra Aminzare; Eduardo D Sontag

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Remarks on a population-level model of chemotaxis: advection-diffusion approximation and simulations

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Remarks on a population-level model of chemotaxis: advection-diffusion approximation and simulations

Zahra Aminzare and Eduardo D Sontag

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02/11/2013

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This note works out an advection-diffusion approximation to the density of a population of E. coli bacteria undergoing chemotaxis in a one-dimensional space. Simulations show the high quality of predictions under a shallow-gradient regime.

Quantitative Biology - Quantitative Methods

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Title: Subtitle: Remarks on a population-level model of chemotaxis: advection-diffusion approximation and simulations
Creators: Zahra Aminzare
Eduardo D Sontag
Resource Type: Preprint
Publication Details: ArXiv.org
ISSN: 2331-8422
Language: English
Date posted: 02/11/2013
Academic Unit: Mathematics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984065885602771

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