TY - JOUR T1 - Error Estimates and Blow-Up Analysis of a Finite-Element Approximation for the Parabolic-Elliptic Keller-Segel System AU - Chen , Wenbin AU - Liu , Qianqian AU - Shen , Jie JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 2-3 SP - 275 EP - 298 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04 SN - 19 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/20481.html KW - Parabolic-elliptic systems, finite element method, error estimates, finite-time blowup. AB -

The Keller-Segel equations are widely used for describing chemotaxis in biology. Recently, a new fully discrete scheme for this model was proposed in [46], mass conservation, positivity and energy decay were proved for the proposed scheme, which are important properties of the original system. In this paper, we establish the error estimates of this scheme. Then, based on the error estimates, we derive the finite-time blowup of nonradial numerical solutions under some conditions on the mass and the moment of the initial data.