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Mathematical models that describe the tumor growth process have been formulated by several authors in order to understand how cancer develops and to develop new treatment approaches. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the long-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Harald Garcke , Sema Yayla

In this work, we present and analyze a system of PDEs, which models tumor growth by considering chemotaxis, active transport, and random effects. The stochasticity of the system is modelled by random initial data and Wiener noises that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Marvin Fritz , Luca Scarpa

We study the optimal control problem of a free boundary PDE model describing the growth of multilayered tumor tissue in vitro. We seek the optimal amount of tumor growth inhibitor that simultaneously minimizes the thickness of the tumor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Xinyue Evelyn Zhao , Yixiang Wu , Rachel Leander , Wandi Ding , Suzanne Lenhart

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

We present a numerical scheme for solving an inverse problem for parameter estimation in tumor growth models for glioblastomas, a form of aggressive primary brain tumor. The growth model is a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Shashank Subramanian , Klaudius Scheufele , Miriam Mehl , George Biros

The inverse geometric approach to the modeling of the growth of circular objects revealing required features, such as the velocity of the growth and fractal behavior of their contours, is presented. It enables to reproduce some of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav Brutovsky , Denis Horvath , Vladimir Lisy

In this paper we study the rigorous sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface model related to the dynamics of tumor growth, when a parameter $\epsilon$, representing the interface thickness between the tumorous and non tumorous cells,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-21 E. Rocca , R. Scala

We study an optimal transportation approach for recovering parameters in dynamical systems with a single smoothly varying attractor. We assume that the data is not sufficient for estimating time derivatives of state variables but enough to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Yunan Yang , Levon Nurbekyan , Elisa Negrini , Robert Martin , Mirjeta Pasha

In this work, we develop a structure-preserving numerical scheme for a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy model that describes tumor growth in a fluid-saturated porous medium. First, we derive a physically consistent model from the general framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Daniel Acosta-Soba , Francisco Guillén-González , J. Rafael Rodríguez-Galván

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a brain tumor growth model that incorporates lactate metabolism, viscoelastic effects, and tissue damage. The PDE system, introduced in [G. Cavalleri, P. Colli, A. Miranville, E. Rocca,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Giulia Cavalleri , Alain Miranville

This paper presents a mathematical framework for optimizing drug delivery in cancer treatment using a nonlocal model of solid tumor growth. We present a coupled system of partial differential equations that incorporate long-range cellular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Bouhamidi Abderrahman , El Harraki Imad , Melouani Yassine

We discuss solution algorithms for calibrating a tumor growth model using imaging data posed as a deterministic inverse problem. The forward model consists of a nonlinear and time-dependent reaction-diffusion partial differential equation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Baoshan Liang , Luke Lozenski , Umberto Villa , Danial Faghihi

A phase field model for tumour growth is introduced that is based on a Brinkman law for convective velocity fields. The model couples a convective Cahn-Hilliard equation for the evolution of the tumour to a reaction-diffusion-advection…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Matthias Ebenbeck , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional diffuse interface model for the phase separation of an incompressible and isothermal binary fluid mixture with matched densities. This model consists of the Navier--Stokes equations, nonlinearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-09 S. Frigeri , M. Grasselli , J. Sprekels

In this paper, we use the Bayesian inversion approach to study the data assimilation problem for a family of tumor growth models described by porous-medium type equations. The models contain uncertain parameters and are indexed by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Yu Feng , Liu Liu , Zhennan Zhou

This paper is intended to tackle the control problem associated with an extended phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type that is related to a tumor growth model. This system has been investigated in previous contributions from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Andrea Signori

This paper addresses the inverse optimal control for the linear quadratic tracking problem with a fixed but unknown target state, which aims to estimate the possible triplets comprising the target state, the state weight matrix, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yao Li , Chengpu Yu , Hao Fang , Jie Chen

We derive a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy model to describe multiphase tumour growth taking interactions with multiple chemical species into account as well as the simultaneous occurrence of proliferating, quiescent and necrotic regions. Via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Emanuel Sitka

We analyze a phase field model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system, ruling the evolution of the tumor mass, coupled with an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for a chemical species acting as a nutrient. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We develop a linear fully discrete structure-preserving finite element method for a diffuse-interface model of tumour growth. The system couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation with a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation for nutrient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Agus L. Soenjaya , Ping Lin , Thanh Tran