Keller-Segel chemotaxis models: a review

Abstract

We recount and discuss some of the most important methods and blow-up criteria for analyzing solutions of Keller-Segel chemotaxis models. First, we discuss the results concerning the global existence, boundedness and blow-up of solutions to parabolic-elliptic type models. Thereafter we describe the global existence, boundedness and blow-up of solutions to parabolic-parabolic models. The numerical analysis of these models is still at a rather early stage only. We recollect quite a few of the known results on numerical methods also and direct the attention to a number of open problems in this domain.