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In the present work, we develop a comprehensive and rigorous analytical framework for a non-local phase-field model that describes tumour growth dynamics. The model is derived by coupling a non-local Cahn-Hilliard equation with a parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Melzi , Andrea Signori

We introduce a nonisothermal phase-field system of Caginalp type that describes tumor growth under hyperthermia. The model couples a possibly viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the healthy and tumor phases, with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Giulia Cavalleri , Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca

In this paper, we consider an age-structured mechanical model for tumor growth. This model takes into account the life-cycle of tumor cells by including an age variable. The underlying process for tumor growth is the same as classical tumor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Maeve Wildes

In this paper, we study a distributed optimal control problem for a diffuse interface model for tumor growth. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type equation for the phase field variable coupled to a reaction diffusion equation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Matthias Ebenbeck , Patrik Knopf

A Maxwell-Stefan system for fluid mixtures with driving forces depending on Cahn-Hilliard-type chemical potentials is analyzed. The corresponding parabolic cross-diffusion equations contain fourth-order derivatives and are considered in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Xiaokai Huo , Ansgar Jüngel , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We formulate a Hele-Shaw type free boundary problem for a tumor growing under the combined effects of pressure forces, cell multiplication and active motion, the latter being the novelty of the present paper. This new ingredient is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Benoît Perthame , Fernando Quirós , Min Tang , Nicolas Vauchelet

We propose a diffuse interface model to describe tumor as a multicomponent deformable porous medium. We include mechanical effects in the model by coupling the mass balance equations for the tumor species and the nutrient dynamics to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Pavel Krejci , Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen Sprekels

The mathematical modeling of tumor growth leads to singular stiff pressure law limits for porous medium equations with a source term. Such asymptotic problems give rise to free boundaries, which, in the absence of active motion, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Inwon C. Kim , Benoit Perthame , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We consider a biphasic continuum model for avascular tumour growth in two spatial dimensions, in which a cell phase and a fluid phase follow conservation of mass and momentum. A limiting nutrient that follows a diffusion process controls…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Jerome Droniou , Jennifer A. Flegg , Gopikrishnan C. Remesan

In this paper, we study a system of three evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded, linear operators having compact resolvents. This system constitutes a generalized and relaxed version…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We prove existence of weak solutions to a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Jonas Haselböck

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 study a stochastic phase-field model for tumor growth dynamics coupling a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation for the tumor phase parameter with a stochastic reaction-diffusion equation governing the nutrient proportion. We prove strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Carlo Orrieri , Elisabetta Rocca , Luca Scarpa

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 consider the inverse problem of parameter estimation in a diffuse interface model for tumour growth. The model consists of a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard system and contains three phenomenological parameters: the tumour proliferation rate,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam , Jonas Latz , Elisabeth Ullmann

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is the most common model to describe phase separation processes of a mixture of two components. For a better description of short-range interactions of the material with the solid wall, various dynamic boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf

The global-in-time existence of weak solutions to a degenerate Cahn-Hilliard cross-diffusion system with singular potential in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proved. The model consists of two coupled parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Ansgar Jüngel , Yue Li

We investigate the long-time dynamics and optimal control problem of a diffuse interface model that describes the growth of a tumor in presence of a nutrient and surrounded by host tissues. The state system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Cecilia Cavaterra , Elisabetta Rocca , Hao Wu

In this note we consider degenerate chemotaxis systems with porous media type diffusion and a source term satisfying the Hadamard growth condition. We prove the H\"older regularity for bounded solutions to parabolic-parabolic as well as for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 M. Marras , F. Ragnedda , S. Vernier-Piro , V. Vespri

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with mass sources that arises in the modeling of tumor growth. The aim is to monitor the tumor fraction in a finite time interval in such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Juergen Sprekels , Hao Wu