APPLICATION OF AGGREGATION OF VARIABLES METHODS TO A CLASS OF TWO-TIME REACTION-DIFFUSION-CHEMOTAXIS MODELS OF SPATIALLY STRUCTURED POPULATIONS WITH CONSTANT DIFFUSION

摘要

The main goal of this paper is to adapt a class of complexity reduction methods called aggregation of variables methods to the construction of reduced models of two-time reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis models of spatially structured populations and to provide an error bound of the approximate dynamics. Aggregation of variables methods are general techniques that allow reducing the dimension of a mathematical dynamical system. Here we reduce a system of Partial Differential Equations to a simpler Ordinary Differential Equation system, provided that the evolution processes occur at two different time scales: a slow one for the demography and a fast one for migrations and chemotaxis, with a ratio ε > 0 small enough. We give an approximation of the error between solutions of both original and reduced model for a generic function representing the demography. Finally, we provide an optimization of the error bound and validate numerically this result for a spatial inter-specific model with constant diffusion and population growth given by a logistic law in population dynamics.