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In this paper we study a nonlinear free boundary problem on the radial growth of a two-layer solid tumor with a quiescent core. The tumor surface and its inner interface separating the proliferating cells and the quiescent cells are both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Junde Wu , Hao Xu , Yuehong Zhuang

We investigate the dynamics of a nonlinear system modeling tumor growth with drug application. The tumor is viewed as a mixture consisting of proliferating, quiescent and dead cells as well as a nutrient in the presence of a drug. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Donatella Donatelli , Konstantina Trivisa

In this paper, a free boundary problem modelling the growth of tumor is considered. The model includes two reaction-diffusion equations modelling the diffusion of nutrient and drug in the tumor and three hyperbolic equations describing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Sakine Esmaili , F. Nasresfahani , M. R. Eslahchi

Strong experimental evidence has indicated that tumor growth belongs to the molecular beam epitaxy universality class. This type of growth is characterized by the constraint of cell proliferation to the tumor border, and surface diffusion…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Carlos Escudero

This paper concerns multiphase models of tumor growth in interaction with a surrounding tissue, taking into account also the interplay with diffusible nutrients feeding the cells. Models specialize in nonlinear systems of possibly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Andrea Tosin

In this paper we study a linearized eigenvalue problem derived from a a free boundary problem modeling the growth of a tumor containing two species of cells: proliferating cells and quiescent cells. The reduced form of this eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Shangbin Cui , Jiayue Zheng

This paper provides a unified mathematical analysis of a family of non-local diffuse interface models for tumor growth describing evolutions driven by long-range interactions. These integro-partial differential equations model cell-to-cell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Luca Scarpa , Andrea Signori

We propose a new type of diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a tumor mass under the effects of a chemical substance (e.g., a nutrient or a drug). The process is described by utilizing the variables $\varphi$, an order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

In this work, we analyze a diffuse-interface model for tumor growth, subject to multiplicative white noises, posed on a bounded domain $\mathcal{O} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. The model couples a stochastic incompressible convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Kalpana Rawat , Kumarasamy Sakthivel

This paper investigates the connection between the chemotaxis--Navier--Stokes system with porous medium type nonlinear diffusion and the Hele--Shaw problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq2$). First, we prove the global-in-time existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Qingyou He , Ling-Yun Shou , Leyun Wu

We study a diffuse interface model describing the evolution of the flow of a binary fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy (CHD) type system with transport and mass source. A relevant physical application is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Giorgini , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We study a moving boundary problem describing the growth of nonnecrotic tumors in different regimes of vascularisation. This model consists of two decoupled Dirichlet problem, one for the rate at which nutrient is added to the tumor domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-05 Joachim Escher , Anca-Voichita Matioc

The present paper deals with a free boundary problem modeling the growth process of necrotic multi-layer tumors. We prove the existence of flat stationary solutions and determine the linearization of our model at such an equilibrium.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-18 Martin Kohlmann

We consider a phase-field system modelling solid tumour growth. This system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a nutrient equation. The former is characterised by a degenerate mobility and a singular potential. Both equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Cecilia Cavaterra , Matteo Fornoni , Maurizio Grasselli , Benoît Perthame

In this study, we analyze the behavior of monotone traveling waves of a one-dimensional porous medium equation modeling mechanical properties of living tissues. We are interested in the asymptotics where the pressure, which governs the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Gabriela Lopez-Ruiz , Charlotte Perrin

The porous medium type reaction-diffusion equation and the Hele-Shaw problem are two free boundary problems linked through the incompressible (Hele-Shaw) limit. We investigate and compare the sharp power concavities of the pressures on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Qingyou He

We propose a model for describing the growth on an untreated tumor, which is characterized in a simple way by a minimal number of parameters with a well-defined physical interpretation. The model is motivated by invoking the Master Equation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 José F. Nieves , Marcelo R. Ubriaco

This article considers a limit system by passing to the limit in the following Cahn--Hilliard type phase field system related to tumor growth as $\beta\searrow0$: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \alpha\partial_{t} \mu_{\beta} + \partial_{t}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Shunsuke Kurima

We consider the Hele-Shaw problem in a randomly perforated domain with zero Neumann boundary conditions. A homogenization limit is obtained as the characteristic scale of the domain goes to zero. Specifically, we prove that the solutions as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-08 Nestor Guillen , Inwon Kim

In this work, we study a model consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-type equation for the concentration of tumour cells coupled to a reaction-diffusion type equation for the nutrient density and a Brinkman-type equation for the velocity. We equip…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Matthias Ebenbeck , Harald Garcke