An Unconditionally Energy Stable and Positive Upwind DG Scheme for the Keller–Segel Model

The well-suited discretization of the Keller–Segel equations for chemotaxis has become a very challenging problem due to the convective nature inherent to them. This paper aims to introduce a new upwind, mass-conservative, positive and energy-dissipative discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Keller–...

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Autores: Acosta Soba, Daniel, Guillén González, Francisco Manuel, Rodríguez Galván, José Rafael
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositório:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:idus________::5de28cdc19066376e231bf722ec1a677
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/187091
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-023-02320-4
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Keller–Segel equations
Chemotaxis
Discontinuous Galerkin
Upwind scheme
Positivity preserving
Energy stability
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Resumo:The well-suited discretization of the Keller–Segel equations for chemotaxis has become a very challenging problem due to the convective nature inherent to them. This paper aims to introduce a new upwind, mass-conservative, positive and energy-dissipative discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Keller–Segel model. This approach is based on the gradient-flow structure of the equations. In addition, we show some numerical experiments in accordance with the aforementioned properties of the discretization. The numerical results obtained emphasize the really good behaviour of the approximation in the case of chemotactic collapse, where very steep gradients appear.