A HYPERBOLIC SYSTEM OF CHEMOTAXIS ON NETWORK MODELING PHYSARUM DYNAMICS

Many studies have shown that Physarum polycephalum slime mold is able to find the shortest path in a maze. Here we study this behavior in a network, using a hyperbolic model of chemotaxis [1]. Suitable transmission and boundary conditions at each node are considered to mimic the behavior of such an organism in the feeding process. Several numerical tests are presented for special network geometries to show the qualitative agreement between our model and the observed behavior of the mold.