Self polarization and traveling wave in a model for cell crawling migration

Autor: Alessandro Cucchi, Antoine Mellet, Nicolas Meunier
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Zdroj: Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems. 42:2381
ISSN: 1553-5231
1078-0947
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2021194
Popis: In this paper, we prove the existence of traveling wave solutions for an incompressible Darcy's free boundary problem recently introduced in [6] to describe cell motility. This free boundary problem involves a nonlinear destabilizing term in the boundary condition which describes the active character of the cell cytoskeleton. By using two different methods, a constructive method via a graph analysis and a local bifurcation method, we prove that traveling wave solutions exist when the destabilizing term is strong enough.
Databáze: OpenAIRE