A high order stochastic asymptotic preserving scheme for chemotaxis kinetic models with random inputs

In this paper, we develop a stochastic Asymptotic-Preserving (sAP) scheme for the kinetic chemotaxis system with random inputs, which will converge to the modified Keller-Segel model with random inputs in the diffusive regime. Based on the generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) approach, we design a high order stochastic Galerkin method using implicit-explicit (IMEX) Runge-Kutta (RK) time discretization with a macroscopic penalty term. The new schemes improve the parabolic CFL condition to a hyperbolic type when the mean free path is small, which shows significant efficiency especially in uncertainty quantification (UQ) with multiscale problems. The sAP property will be shown asymptotically and verified numerically in several tests. Other numerical tests are conducted to explore the effect of the randomness in the kinetic system, with the goal of providing more intuition for the theoretic study of the chemotaxis models.