Nonlocal Adhesion Models for Microorganisms on Bounded Domains
Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2019
Recommended citation: Hillen T., Buttenschön, A. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (2020) https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/19M1250315
Abstract: In 2006 Armstrong, Painter and Sherratt formulated a non-local differential equation model for cell-cell adhesion. For the one dimensional case we derive various types of adhesive, repulsive, and no-flux boundary conditions. We prove local and global existence and uniqueness for the resulting integro-differential equations. In numerical simulations we consider adhesive, repulsive and neutral boundary conditions and we show that the solutions mimic known behavior of fluid adhesion to boundaries. In addition, we observe interior pattern formation due to cell-cell adhesion.
This publication is part of the Non-local models of cell-cell adhesion project.