Nonlinear stability of phase transition steady states to a hyperbolic-parabolic system modelling vascular networks

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the existence and stability of phase transition steady states to a quasi-linear hyperbolic-parabolic system of chemotactic aggregation, which was proposed in \cite{ambrosi2005review, gamba2003percolation} to describe the coherent vascular network formation observed {\it in vitro} experiment. Considering the system in the half line $ \mathbb{R}_{+}=(0,\infty)$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, we first prove the existence \textcolor{black}{and uniqueness of non-constant phase transition steady states} under some structure conditions on the pressure function. Then we prove that this unique phase transition steady state is nonlinearly asymptotically stable against a small perturbation. We prove our results by the method of energy estimates, the technique of {\it a priori} assumption and a weighted Hardy-type inequality.