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In this paper we study a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal convective Cahn--Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility and singular potential in three dimensions of space. While the cost functional is of standard tracking…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen 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 2017-09-13 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We propose a new type of diffuse interface model describing the evolution of a tumor mass under the effects of a chemical substance (e.g., a nutrient or a drug). The process is described by utilizing the variables $\varphi$, an order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

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 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

In this paper we study the optimal control of a parabolic initial-boundary value problem of viscous Cahn-Hilliard type with zero Neumann boundary conditions. Phase field systems of this type govern the evolution of diffusive phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels , Fredi Tröltzsch

We introduce a new diffuse interface model for tumour growth in the presence of a nutrient, in which we take into account mechanical effects and reversible tissue damage. The highly nonlinear PDEs system mainly consists of a Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Giulia Cavalleri

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

Phase field models recently gained a lot of interest in the context of tumour growth models. Typically Darcy-type flow models are coupled to Cahn-Hilliard equations. However, often Stokes or Brinkman flows are more appropriate flow models.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Matthias Ebenbeck , Harald Garcke

In this paper, a two-dimensional model for the growth of multi-layer tumors is presented. The model consists of a free boundary problem for the tumor cell membrane and the tumor is supposed to grow or shrink due to cell proliferation or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Martin Kohlmann

This paper is concerned with a boundary control problem for the Cahn--Hilliard equation coupled with dynamic boundary conditions. In order to handle the control problem, we restrict our analysis to the case of regular potentials defined on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem arising from a chemotherapeutic drug treatment for tumor cells in a living tissue. The mathematical model for the interaction of chemotherapeutic drug and the normal, tumor and immune…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Hong-Ming Yin

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

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 investigate a multiphase Cahn-Hilliard model for tumor growth with general source terms. The multiphase approach allows us to consider multiple cell types and multiple chemical species (oxygen and/or nutrients) that are consumed by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

In this paper, we study a system of three evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded, linear operators having compact resolvents. This system constitutes a generalization of a phase field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

Optimal control of nonlinear acoustic waves is relevant in many medical ultrasound technologies, ranging from cancer therapy to targeted drug delivery, where it can help guide the precise deposition of acoustic energy. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Vanja Nikolić , Belkacem Said-Houari

In this paper, we study a system of three evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded, linear operators having compact resolvents. This system constitutes a generalized and relaxed version…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

We introduce a nonisothermal phase-field system of Caginalp type that describes tumor growth under hyperthermia. The model couples a possibly viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the healthy and tumor phases, with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Giulia Cavalleri , Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca

This paper is concerned with a phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type that is related to a tumor growth model and consists of three equations in terms of the variables order parameter, chemical potential and nutrient concentration. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels