Myxobacteria are rod-shaped, social bacteria that are able to move on flat surfaces by ’gliding’ and form a fascinating example of how simple cell-cell interaction rules, including alignment and reversal of individuals, can lead to emergent, collective behaviour. In this talk a new kinetic model of Boltzmann-type for such colonies of myxobacteria will be introduced and investigated. For the spatially homogeneous case an existence and uniqueness result will be shown, as well as expo- nential decay to an equilibrium for the Maxwellian collision operator. Further, model extensions and their analysis will be addressed and numerical simulations will be shown.
De Richard Bailleul
De Florence Hubert
De Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin
De Markus Schmidtchen
De Camille Pouchol
De Monika Joanna Piotrowska
De Annabelle Collin
De Sébastien Benzekry
De Jose Munoz
De Pasquale Ciarletta
De Olivier Saut
De Anna Marciniak-Czochra
De Aleksandra Ardaseva
De Kevin Painter
De Nadia Loy
De Min Tang
De Christian Schmeiser
De Thierry Goudon
De Ariane Trescases
