CHEMOTAXIS
FreeFem++ Applied to a Chemotaxis Problem

chemotaxis, a FreeFem++ code which models the time-dependent growth of cells which secrete a chemoattractant, causing patterns to form.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Reference:

• Frederic Hecht,
  New development in FreeFem++,
  Journal of Numerical Mathematics,
  Volume 20, Number 3-4, 2012, pages 251-265.

Source Code:

• chemotaxis.edp, the FreeFem++ code;
• chemotaxis.sh, a BASH script to run the code;
• chemotaxis.txt, the output file;

• chemotaxis_mesh.png, a PNG image of the mesh;
• chemotaxis_c.png, a PNG image of the cell density C at the final timestep.
• chemotaxis_rho.png, a PNG image of the chemoattractant RHO at the final timestep.