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We introduce the problem of parameter identification for a coupled nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-reaction-diffusion PDE system stemming from a recently introduced tumor growth model. The inverse problem of identifying relevant parameters is…
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The investigation of tumor invasion and metastasis dynamics is crucial for advancements in cancer biology and treatment. Many mathematical models have been developed to study the invasion of host tissue by tumor cells. In this paper, we…
In this work, we analyze the residual-based a posteriori error estimation of the multi-scale cancer invasion model, which is a system of three non-stationary reaction-diffusion equations. We present the numerical results of a study on a…
Intratumour phenotypic heterogeneity is nowadays understood to play a critical role in disease progression and treatment failure. Accordingly, there has been increasing interest in the development of mathematical models capable of capturing…
Starting from a mesoscopic description of cell migration and intraspecific interactions we obtain by upscaling an effective reaction-difusion-taxis equation for the cell population density involving spatial nonlocalities in the source term…