Shock-type singularity of the hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system

Abstract

This paper deals with the hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis (HPC) model, which is a hydrodynamic model describing vascular network formation at the early stage of the vasculature. We study analytically the singularity formation associated with the shock-type structure, which was numerically observed by Filbet, Lauren{\c{c}}ot, and Perthame \cite{filbet2005derivation} and Filbet and Shu \cite{filbet2005approximation}. We construct the blow-up profile in a 1D HPC system on $\mathbb{R}$ as follows: The blow-up profile is stable in the sense of $H^m$ topology ($m\geq 5$) prior to the occurrence of the singularity. For the first singularity, while the density and velocity $(\rho, u)$ of endothelial cells themselves remain bounded, the gradients of the density and velocity blow up. The chemoattractant concentration $\phi$ has $C^2$ regularity. However, the density and velocity with $C^ {\frac{1}{3}}$ regularity exhibit a cusp singularity at a unique blow-up point, the location and time of which are explicitly estimated. Furthermore, the HPC system is $C^1$ differentiable except in any neighborhood of the blow-up point.