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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

There has been recently an important interest in deriving rigorously the Cahn-Hilliard equation from the nonlocal equation, also called aggregation equation. So far, only non-degenerate mobilities were treated. Since we are motivated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Charles Elbar , Jakub Skrzeczkowski

We study a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with mass sources, which can be considered as a basic, though simplified, diffuse interface model for the evolution of tumor growth. This system is equipped with an impermeability condition for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Marco Abatangelo , Cecilia Cavaterra , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-03 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Günther Grün

In this work, we investigate a distributed optimal control problem for an extended phase field system of Cahn--Hilliard type which physical context is that of tumor growth dynamics. In a previous contribution, the author has already studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Andrea Signori

We investigate avascular tumour growth as a two-phase process consisting of cells and liquid. Based on the one-dimensional continuum moving-boundary model formulated by (Byrne, King, McElwain, Preziosi, Applied Mathematics Letters, 2003,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Andrea Genovese de Oliveira , John R. King

We consider a Hele-Shaw model that describes tumor growth subject to nutrient supply. The model is derived by taking the incompressible limit of porous medium type equations, and the boundary instability of this model was recently studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Yu Feng , Qingyou He , Jian-Guo Liu , Zhennan Zhou

We consider a one--spatial dimensional tumour growth model [2, 3, 4] that consists of three dependent variables of space and time: volume fraction of tumour cells, velocity of tumour cells, and nutrient concentration. The model variables…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Gopikrishnan Chirappurathu Remesan

In this work, we present and analyse a system of coupled partial differential equations, which models tumour growth under the influence of subdiffusion, mechanical effects, nutrient supply, and chemotherapy. The subdiffusion of the system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Marvin Fritz , Christina Kuttler , Mabel L. Rajendran , Barbara Wohlmuth , Laura Scarabosio

In this paper, we develop a sharp interface tumor growth model in two dimensions to study the effect of both the intratumoral structure using a controlled necrotic core and the extratumoral nutrient supply from vasculature on tumor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Min-Jhe Lu , Wenrui Hao , Chun Liu , John Lowengrub , Shuwang Li

We study a diffuse interface model describing the motion of two viscous fluids driven by the surface tension in a Hele-Shaw cell. The full system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with the Darcy's law. We address the physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Andrea Giorgini

Several mathematical models of tumor growth are now commonly used to explain medical observations and predict cancer evolution based on images. These models incorporate mechanical laws for tissue compression combined with rules for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Benoît Perthame , Min Tang , Nicolas Vauchelet

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

Cahn-Hilliard models are central for describing the evolution of interfaces in phase separation processes and free boundary problems. In general, they have non-constant and often degenerate mobilities. However, in the latter case, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Catalina Pesce , Andreas Münch

A thermodynamic approach to rapid phase transformations within a diffuse interface in a binary system is developed. Assuming an extended set of independent thermodynamic variables formed by the union of the classic set of slow variables and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Galenko , David Jou

In this paper, we propose and analyze a diffuse interface model for inductionless magnetohydrodynamic fluids. The model couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the evolution of the interface, the Navier-Stokes system for fluid flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Xiaodi Zhang

Theoretical and computational tools that can be used in the clinic to predict neoplastic progression and propose individualized optimal treatment strategies to control cancer growth is desired. To develop such a predictive model, one must…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-20 Salvatore Torquato

We study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 David O'Connor , Bjorn Stinner

Over the past decades, nonlocal models have been widely used to describe aggregation phenomena in biology, physics, engineering, and the social sciences. These are often derived as mean-field limits of attraction-repulsion agent-based…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Carles Falcó , Ruth E. Baker , José A. Carrillo

We consider a diffuse interface model describing a ternary system constituted by a conductive diblock copolymer and a homopolymer acting as solvent. The resulting dynamics is modeled by two Cahn--Hilliard--Oono equations for the copolymer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Helmut Abels , Andrea Di Primio , Harald Garcke