A corrected decoupled scheme for chemotaxis models

摘要

The main purpose of this paper is to present a new corrected decoupled scheme combined with a spatial finite volume method for chemotaxis models. First, we derive the scheme for a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis model arising in embryology. We then establish the existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution, and we prove that it converges to a corresponding weak solution for the studied model. In the last section, several numerical tests are presented by applying our approach to a number of chemotaxis systems. The obtained numerical results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme and its effectiveness to capture different forms of spatial patterns. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.