Well posedness of fluid/solid mixture models for biofilm spread

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Autori principali: Carpio, Ana, Duro, Gema
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author Carpio, Ana
Duro, Gema
author_facet Carpio, Ana
Duro, Gema
contents Two phase solid-fluid mixture models are ubiquitous in biological applications. For instance, models for growth of tissues and biofilms combine time dependent and quasi-stationary boundary value problems set in domains whose boundary moves in response to variations in the mechano-chemical variables. For a model of biofilm spread, we show how to obtain better posed models by characterizing the time derivatives of relevant quasi-stationary magnitudes in terms of additional boundary value problems. We also give conditions for well posedness of time dependent submodels set in moving domains depending on the motion of the boundary. After constructing solutions for transport, diffusion and elliptic submodels for volume fractions, displacements, velocities, pressures and concentrations with the required regularity, we are able to handle the full model of biofilm spread in moving domains assuming we know the dynamics of the boundary. These techniques are general and can be applied in models with a similar structure arising in biological and chemical engineering applications.
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spellingShingle Well posedness of fluid/solid mixture models for biofilm spread
Carpio, Ana
Duro, Gema
Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
Mathematical Physics
Two phase solid-fluid mixture models are ubiquitous in biological applications. For instance, models for growth of tissues and biofilms combine time dependent and quasi-stationary boundary value problems set in domains whose boundary moves in response to variations in the mechano-chemical variables. For a model of biofilm spread, we show how to obtain better posed models by characterizing the time derivatives of relevant quasi-stationary magnitudes in terms of additional boundary value problems. We also give conditions for well posedness of time dependent submodels set in moving domains depending on the motion of the boundary. After constructing solutions for transport, diffusion and elliptic submodels for volume fractions, displacements, velocities, pressures and concentrations with the required regularity, we are able to handle the full model of biofilm spread in moving domains assuming we know the dynamics of the boundary. These techniques are general and can be applied in models with a similar structure arising in biological and chemical engineering applications.
title Well posedness of fluid/solid mixture models for biofilm spread
topic Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04154