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We introduce here a new diffuse interface thermodynamically consistent non-isothermal model for tumor growth in presence of a nutrient in a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$. In particular our system describes the growth of a tumor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Erica Ipocoana

We consider a diffuse interface model for tumour growth consisting of a Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation. The coupled system of partial differential equations models a tumour growing in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

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

This paper provides a unified mathematical analysis of a family of non-local diffuse interface models for tumor growth describing evolutions driven by long-range interactions. These integro-partial differential equations model cell-to-cell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Luca Scarpa , Andrea Signori

We consider the inverse problem of identifying parameters in a variant of the diffuse interface model for tumour growth model proposed by Garcke, Lam, Sitka and Styles (Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 2016). The model contains three…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

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

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a nonlinear system of reaction-diffusion equations that constitutes a simplified and relaxed version of a thermodynamically consistent phase field model for tumor growth originally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Jürgen Sprekels , Fredi Tröltzsch

We consider a diffuse interface model of tumor growth proposed by A.~Hawkins-Daruud et al. This model consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the tumor cell fraction $\varphi$ nonlinearly coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Elisabetta Rocca

In this paper, a free boundary problem modelling the growth of tumor is considered. The model includes two reaction-diffusion equations modelling the diffusion of nutrient and drug in the tumor and three hyperbolic equations describing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Sakine Esmaili , F. Nasresfahani , M. R. Eslahchi

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

In this paper, a reaction-diffusion system modeling injection of a chemotherapeutic drug on the surface of a living tissue during a treatment for cancer patients is studied. The system describes the interaction of the chemotherapeutic drug…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Jeff Morgan , Bao Quoc Tang , Hong-Ming Yin

In the present article the diffusion equation is used to model the spatio-temporal dynamics of a tumor, taking into account the heterogeneous of the medium. This approach makes it possible to take into account the complex geometric shape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Maxim V. Polyakov , Valeria V. Ten

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

The uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells and their interaction with healthy tissue poses a major challenge in oncology. This manuscript develops and analyzes mathematical models that describe tumor response to radiotherapy by…

Tumor-immune interactions are central to cancer progression and treatment outcomes. In this study, we present a stochastic agent-based model that integrates cellular heterogeneity, spatial cell-cell interactions, and drug resistance…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-19 Yuhong Zhang , Chenghang Li , Boya Wang , Jinzhi Lei

This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of viscous Cahn--Hilliard type. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a thermodynamic force induced by a double-well potential of logarithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jürgen Sprekels , Fredi Tröltzsch

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

Using formal asymptotic methods we derive a free boundary problem representing one of the simplest mathematical descriptions of the growth and death of a tumour or other biological tissue. The mathematical model takes the form of a closed…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-16 Joe Eyles , John F. King , Vanessa Styles

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 investigate the dynamics of a nonlinear model for tumor growth within a cellular medium. In this setting the "tumor" is viewed as a multiphase flow consisting of cancerous cells in either proliferating phase or quiescent phase and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Donatella Donatelli , Konstantina Trivisa