The effect of domain growth on spatial correlations

Robert J.H. Ross, C.A. Yates and R.E. Baker

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017, vol. 466, issue C, 334-345

Abstract: Mathematical models describing cell movement and proliferation are important tools in developmental biology research. In this work we present methods to include the effects of domain growth on the evolution of spatial correlations between agent locations in a continuum approximation of a one-dimensional lattice-based model of cell motility and proliferation. This is important as the inclusion of spatial correlations in continuum models of cell motility and proliferation without domain growth has previously been shown to be essential for their accuracy in certain scenarios. We include the effect of spatial correlations by deriving a system of ordinary differential equations that describe the expected evolution of individual and pair density functions for agents on a growing domain. We then demonstrate how to simplify this system of ordinary differential equations by using an appropriate approximation. This simplification allows domain growth to be included in models describing the evolution of spatial correlations between agents in a tractable manner.

Keywords: Domain growth; Moment-closure approximations; Spatial correlations; Migratory and proliferative cell populations; Individual-based modelling; Pair density functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.09.002

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