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This paper investigates the incompressible limit of a system modelling the growth of two cells population. The model describes the dynamics of cell densities, driven by pressure exclusion and cell proliferation. It has been shown that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 P. Degond , S. Hecht , N. Vauchelet

At the continuous level, we consider two types of tumor growth models: the cell density model, which is based on the fluid mechanical construction, is more favorable for scientific interpretation and numerical simulations; and the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Jian-Guo Liu , Min Tang , Li Wang , Zhennan Zhou

Cancer is a very complex phenomenon that involves many different scales and situations. In this paper we consider a free boundary problem describing the evolution of a tumor colony and we derive a new asymptotic model for tumor growth. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Martina Magliocca

This paper proposes a model for the growth two interacting populations of cells that do not mix. The dynamics is driven by pressure and cohesion forces on the one hand and proliferation on the other hand. Following earlier works on the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-12 Alina Chertock , Pierre Degond , Sophie Hecht , Jean-Paul Vincent

We study a free boundary problem modelling the growth of non-necrotic tumors with fluid-like tissues. The fluid velocity satisfies Stokes equations with a source determined by the proliferation rate of tumor cells which depends on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-10 Junde Wu , Shangbin Cui

In this paper we make rigorous mathematical analysis to a free boundary problem modeling the growth of necrotic tumors. A remarkable feature of this free boundary problem is that it contains two different-type free surfaces: One is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Shangbin Cui

We study a free boundary problem modeling multi-layer tumor growth with a small time delay $\tau$, representing the time needed for the cell to complete the replication process. The model consists of two elliptic equations which describe…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Wenhua He , Ruixiang Xing , Bei Hu

In this paper, we study a phase field model for a tumor growth model of Cahn--Hilliard type in which the often assumed parabolic relaxation of the chemical potential is replaced by a hyperbolic one. We show that the resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

We address numerical challenges in solving hyperbolic free boundary problems described by spherically symmetric conservation laws that arise in the modeling of tumor growth due to immune cell infiltrations. In this work, we normalize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Xianyi Zeng , Mashriq Ahmed Saleh , Jianjun Paul Tian

We introduce a multi-species diffuse interface model for tumor growth, characterized by its incorporation of essential features related to chemotaxis, angiogenesis and proliferation mechanisms. We establish the weak well-posedness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Abramo Agosti , Andrea Signori

We consider a diffuse interface model for tumor growth recently proposed in [Y. Chen, S.M. Wise, V.B. Shenoy, J.S. Lowengrub, A stable scheme for a nonlinear, multiphase tumor growth model with an elastic membrane, Int. J. Numer. Methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Mimi Dai , Eduard Feireisl , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna , Maria Schonbek

We introduce a new phase field model for tumour growth where viscoelastic effects are taken into account. The model is derived from basic thermodynamical principles and consists of a convected Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács , Dennis Trautwein

We analyze a phase field model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system, ruling the evolution of the tumor mass, coupled with an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for a chemical species acting as a nutrient. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper we deal with a free boundary problem modeling the growth of nonnecrotic tumors.The tumor is treated as an incompressible fluid, the tissue elasticity is neglected and no chemical inhibitor species are present. We re-express…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-08 Joachim Escher , Anca-Voichita Matioc

We study the long-time behavior of an exterior Hele-Shaw problem in random media with a free boundary velocity that depends on position in dimensions $n \geq 2$. A natural rescaling of solutions that is compatible with the evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Norbert Pozar

We consider a diffuse interface model of tumor growth proposed by A.~Hawkins-Daruud et al. This model consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the tumor cell fraction $\varphi$ nonlinearly coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Elisabetta Rocca

We consider a diffuse interface model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation, which models a tumor growing in the presence of a nutrient species and surrounded by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

In this manuscript, we study a nonlinear model of tumor growth, described by a coupled hyperbolic-elliptic system of partial differential equations. In this model, the compressible flow of tumor cells is modeled by a transport equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Jeffrey Kuan , Konstantina Trivisa

We consider a model describing the evolution of a tumor inside a host tissue in terms of the parameters $\varphi_p$, $\varphi_d$ (proliferating and dead cells, respectively), $u$ (cell velocity) and $n$ (nutrient concentration). The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Sergio Frigeri , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We consider a model of congestion dynamics with chemotaxis, where the density of cells follows the chemical signal it generates, while observing an incompressibility constraint. We show that when the chemical diffuses slowly and attracts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Inwon Kim , Antoine Mellet , Yijing Wu