A finite volume scheme for a Keller-Segel model with additional cross-diffusion

Abstract

A finite volume scheme for the (Patlak–) Keller–Segel model in two space dimensions with an additional cross-diffusion term in the elliptic equation for the chemical signal is analysed. The main feature of the model is that there exists a new entropy functional yielding gradient estimates for the cell density and chemical concentration. The main features of the numerical scheme are positivity preservation, mass conservation, entropy stability and—under additional assumptions—entropy dissipation. The existence of a discrete solution and its numerical convergence to the continuous solution is proved. Furthermore, temporal decay rates for convergence of the discrete solution to the homogeneous steady state is shown using a new discrete logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Numerical examples point out that the solutions exhibit intermediate states and that there exist nonhomogeneous stationary solutions with a finite cell density peak at the domain boundary.