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In this paper we present a method for estimating unknown parameters that appear on an avascular, spheric tumour growth model. The model for the tumour is based on nutrient driven growth of a continuum of live cells, whose birth and death…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. A. Knopoff , D. R. Fernández , G. A. Torres , C. V. Turner

We study a non-local variant of a diffuse interface model proposed by Hawkins--Darrud et al. (2012) for tumour growth in the presence of a chemical species acting as nutrient. The system consists of a Cahn--Hilliard equation coupled to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Sergio Frigeri , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca

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

This paper concerns a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn-Hilliard type including chemotaxis with possibly singular potentials, where the control and state variables are nonlinearly coupled. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

The availability of cancer measurements over time enables the personalised assessment of tumour growth and therapeutic response dynamics. However, many tumours are treated after diagnosis without collecting longitudinal data, and cancer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Elena Beretta , Cecilia Cavaterra , Matteo Fornoni , Guillermo Lorenzo , Elisabetta Rocca

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

We consider an inpainting model proposed by A. Bertozzi et al., which is based on a Cahn-Hilliard-type equation. This equation describes the evolution of an order parameter that represents an approximation of the original image occupying a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Elena Beretta , Cecilia Cavaterra , Matteo Fornoni , Maurizio Grasselli

This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn-Hilliard type including chemotaxis. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a variational inequality corresponding to a double obstacle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a particular phase field system which physical context is that of tumor growth dynamics. The model we deal with consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type equation governing the evolution of the phase variable which takes into account the…

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

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

Using basic thermodynamic principles we derive a Cahn--Hilliard--Darcy model for tumour growth including nutrient diffusion, chemotaxis, active transport, adhesion, apoptosis and proliferation. The model generalises earlier models and in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Emanuel Sitka , Vanessa Styles

In this paper we study nonlocal-to-local asymptotics for a tumor-growth model coupling a viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation describing the tumor proportion with a reaction-diffusion equation for the nutrient phase parameter. First, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Elisa Davoli , Elisabetta Rocca , Luca Scarpa , Lara Trussardi

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

This paper investigates an optimal control problem associated with a two-dimensional multi-species Cahn-Hilliard-Keller-Segel tumor growth model, which incorporates complex biological processes such as species diffusion, chemotaxis,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

An optimal control problem for a model of tumor growth is studied. In a given subdomain, it is required to minimize the density of tumor cells, while the drug concentration in tissue is limited by given minimal and maximal values. Based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Andrey Kovtanyuk , Christina Kuttler , Kristina Koshel , Alexander Chebotarev

We consider an evolutionary PDE system coupling the Cahn-Hilliard equation with singular potential, mass source and transport effects, to a Brinkman-type relation for the macroscopic velocity field and to a further equation describing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Giulio Schimperna

In this paper we consider two diffuse interface models for tumor growth coupling a Cahn-Hilliard type equation for the tumor phase parameter to a reaction-diffusion type equation for the nutrient. The models are distinguished by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Filippo Riva , Elisabetta Rocca

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a macroscopic mechanical tumour model based on the phase field approach. The model couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation to a system of linear elasticity and a reaction-diffusion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Andrea Signori

In this paper, the authors study the distributed optimal control of a system of three evolutionary equations involving fractional powers of three selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded linear operators having compact resolvents. The system is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

A distributed optimal control problem for an extended model of phase field type for tumor growth is addressed. In this model, the chemotaxis effects are also taken into account. The control is realized by two control variables that design…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels