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We introduce a new sharp interface model for the flow of two immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluids. In contrast to classical models for two-phase flows we prescribe an evolution law for the interfaces that takes diffusional effects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Helmut Abels , Matthias Röger

We construct gradient structures for free boundary problems with nonlinear elasticity and study the impact of moving contact lines. In this context, we numerically analyze how phase-field models converge to certain sharp-interface limits…

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We consider an optimal control problem for a diffuse interface model of tumor growth. The state equations couples a Cahn-Hilliard equation and a reaction-diffusion equation, which models the growth of a tumor in the presence of a nutrient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Harald Garcke , Kei-Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca

We perform a rigorous examination of the sharp interface limit of a coupled Navier-Stokes and mass-conserving Allen-Cahn system in a two-dimensional, bounded, and smooth domain as the parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, representing the thickness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Helmut Abels , Hanifah Mumtaz

We present a model for cell growth, division and packing under soft constraints that arise from the deformability of the cells as well as of a membrane that encloses them. Our treatment falls within the framework of diffuse interface…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-09 J. Jiang , K. Garikipati , S. Rudraraju

Understanding the untreated tumor growth kinetics and its intrinsic findings is interesting and intriguing. The aim of this study is to propose an approximate analytical expression that allows to simulate changes in surface charge density…

In this article, we study the behavior of the Abels-Garcke-Gr\"un Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard diffuse-interface model for binary-fluid flows, as the diffuse-interface thickness passes to zero. We consider this so-called sharp-interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-05 T. H. B. Demont , S. K. F. Stoter , E. H. van Brummelen

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

We give a very short introduction to discrete and continuum models for the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of cancer through two case studies: a model for the evolutionary dynamics of cancer cells under cytotoxic therapy and a model for…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-07 Tommaso Lorenzi , Fiona R. Macfarlane , Chiara Villa

Mechanical models of tumor growth based on a porous medium approach have been attracting a lot of interest both analytically and numerically. In this paper, we study the stability properties of a finite difference scheme for a model where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Noemi David , Xinran Ruan

We construct a diffuse-interface model of two-phase solidification that quantitatively reproduces the classic free boundary problem on solid-liquid interfaces in the thin-interface limit. Convergence tests and comparisons with boundary…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Folch , M. Plapp

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

We consider two minimal mathematical models for cancer dynamics and self-adaptation. We aim to capture the interplay between the rapid progression of cancer growth and the possibility to leverage and enhance self-adaptive defense mechanisms…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-03-27 Christian Kuehn

We analyze a two-dimensional phase field model designed to describe the dynamics of crystalline grains. The phenomenological free energy is a functional of two order parameters. The first one reflects the orientational order while the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander E. Lobkovsky , James A. Warren

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

In this paper we study a tumor growth model with nutrients. The model presents dynamic patch solutions due to the contact inhibition among the tumor cells. We show that when the nutrients do not diffuse and the cells do not die, the tumor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Matt Jacobs , Inwon Kim , Jiajun Tong

A new approach is developed to derive an analytical form for mobility corrections in phase-field models for pure material solidification. Similar to the thin interface limit approach (Karma and Rappel, 1996) it seeks to remove systematic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Stephan Hubig , Raphael Schiedung , Ingo Steinbach

We consider a (degenerate) cross-diffusion model of tumor growth structured by phenotypic trait. We prove the existence of weak solutions and the incompressible limit as the pressure becomes stiff extending methods recently introduced in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Noemi David

It has been shown experimentally that contact interactions may influence the migration of cancer cells. Previous works have modelized this thanks to stochastic, discrete models (cellular automata) at the cell level. However, for the study…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2009-03-26 Christophe Deroulers , Marine Aubert , Mathilde Badoual , Basil Grammaticos

A novel thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is derived for compressible electrolytes with phase transitions. The fluid mixtures may consist of N constituents with the phases liquid and vapor, where both phases may coexist.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Wolfgang Dreyer , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Kraus