Chemotactic and diffusive migration on a nonuniformly growing domain: numerical algorithm development and applications

Abstract

A numerical algorithm to simulate chemotactic and/or diffusive migration on a one-dimensional growing domain is developed. The domain growth can be spatially nonuniform and the growth-derived advection term must be discretised. The hyperbolic terms in the conservation equations associated with chemotactic migration and domain growth are accurately discretised using an explicit central scheme. Generality of the algorithm is maintained using an operator split technique to simulate diffusive migration implicitly. The resulting algorithm is applicable for any combination of diffusive and/or chemotactic migration on a growing domain with a general growth-induced velocity field. The accuracy of th..