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In this work, we consider a diffuse interface model for tumour growth in the presence of a nutrient which is consumed by the tumour. The system of equations consists of a Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms for the tumour cells and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Harald Garcke , Dennis Trautwein

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

We address an optimal control problem governed by a system coupling a Brinkman-type momentum equation for the velocity field with a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase variable, incorporating curvature effects in the free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper, we investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a convective viscous Cahn-Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions. Such systems govern phase separation processes between two phases taking place in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper is concerned with a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of Cahn-Hilliard type, which is a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , 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 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 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

We extend previous weak well-posedness results obtained in Frigeri et al. (2017) concerning a non-local variant of a diffuse interface tumor model proposed by Hawkins-Daarud et al. (2012). The model consists of a non-local Cahn--Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 S. Frigeri , K. F. Lam , A. Signori

In this paper we study the optimal control of an initial-boundary value problem for the classical nonviscous Cahn-Hilliard system with zero Neumann boundary conditions. Phase field systems of this type govern the evolution of diffusive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper we study a distributed control problem for a phase-field system of conserved type with a possibly singular potential. We mainly handle two cases: the case of a viscous Cahn-Hilliard type dynamics for the phase variable in case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 P. Colli , G. Gilardi , G. Marinoschi , E. Rocca

We introduce the problem of parameter identification for a coupled nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard-reaction-diffusion PDE system stemming from a recently introduced tumor growth model. The inverse problem of identifying relevant parameters is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Elisabetta Rocca , Luca Scarpa , Andrea Signori

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 investigate a nonstandard phase field model of Cahn-Hilliard type. The model describes two-species phase segregation and consists of a system of two highly nonlinearly coupled PDEs. It has been studied recently in the papers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

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

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

In this paper we study optimal control problem for non local Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system which models phase separation of binary fluids in porous media. We consider the system in two dimensional bounded domain with regular potential. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Sheetal Dharmatti , Mahendranath PL N

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

In this work, we investigate optimal control of a Brinkman equation couple with sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation. The Cahn-Hilliard equation is endowed with a source term accounting for mass exchange and the velocity equation contains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Manika Bag

We investigate the dynamics of a nonlinear system modeling tumor growth with drug application. The tumor is viewed as a mixture consisting of proliferating, quiescent and dead cells as well as a nutrient in the presence of a drug. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Donatella Donatelli , Konstantina Trivisa