Analysis and asymptotic reduction of a bulk-surface reaction-diffusion model of Gierer-Meinhardt type

Jan-Phillip Bäcker; Matthias Röger

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2022013

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2022, Volume 21, Issue 4: 1139-1155. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2022013

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Analysis and asymptotic reduction of a bulk-surface reaction-diffusion model of Gierer-Meinhardt type

Jan-Phillip Bäcker^1, , and
Matthias Röger^2,

1.
Institute of Applied Mathematics (LS Ⅲ), TU Dortmund University, Vogelpothsweg 87, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany
2.
AG Biomathematik, TU Dortmund University, Vogelpothsweg 87, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany

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Received: May 31, 2021

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Early access: December 2021

Published: April 2022

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We consider a Gierer-Meinhardt system on a surface coupled with a parabolic PDE in the bulk, the domain confined by this surface. Such a model was recently proposed and analyzed for two-dimensional bulk domains by Gomez, Ward and Wei (SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 18, 2019). We prove the well-posedness of the bulk-surface system in arbitrary space dimensions and show that solutions remain uniformly bounded in parabolic Hölder spaces for all times. The cytosolic diffusion is typically much larger than the lateral diffusion on the membrane. This motivates to a corresponding asymptotic reduction, which consists of a nonlocal system on the membrane. We prove the convergence of solutions of the full system towards unique solutions of the reduction.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K57, 58J35, 92B05; Secondary: 35Q92, 58J99.

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