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The mathematical analysis of diffuse-interface models for multiphase flows has attracted significant attention due to their ability to capture complex interfacial dynamics, including curvature effects, within a unified, energetically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

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

A multidimensional model of biofilm growth present in the supernatant water of a Slow Sand Filter is derived. The multiphase model, consisting of solid and liquid phases, is written as a convection-reaction system with a Cahn-Hilliard-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Julio Careaga , Stefan Diehl , Jaime Manríquez

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

The global existence of bounded weak solutions to a diffusion system modeling biofilm growth is proven. The equations consist of a reaction-diffusion equation for the substrate concentration and a fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard-type equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Christoph Helmer , Ansgar Jüngel

A mathematical analysis of local and nonlocal phase-field models of tumor growth is presented that includes time-dependent Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman models of convective velocity fields and models of long-range cell interactions. A…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Marvin Fritz , Ernesto A. B. F. Lima , J. Tinsley Oden , Barbara Wohlmuth

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

We study a model introduced by Perthame and Vauchelet that describes the growth of a tumor governed by Brinkman's Law, which takes into account friction between the tumor cells. We adopt the viscosity solution approach to establish an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Inwon Kim , Olga Turanova

In this paper we perform an asymptotic analysis for two different vanishing viscosity coefficients occurring in a phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type that was recently introduced in order to approximate a tumor growth model. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-02 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen Sprekels

We consider a phase-field model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy effects which is introduced in [2]. It is comprised of phase-field equation to describe tumor growth, which is coupled to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Tania Biswas , Elisabetta Rocca

We investigate avascular tumour growth as a two-phase process consisting of cells and liquid. Based on the one-dimensional continuum moving-boundary model formulated by (Byrne, King, McElwain, Preziosi, Applied Mathematics Letters, 2003,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Andrea Genovese de Oliveira , John R. King

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

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

We study a distributed optimal control problem for a nonisothermal Caginalp-type phase-field model that describes tumour growth under thermal therapy. The PDE system couples a possibly viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Giulia Cavalleri , Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca

We consider a biphasic continuum model for avascular tumour growth in two spatial dimensions, in which a cell phase and a fluid phase follow conservation of mass and momentum. A limiting nutrient that follows a diffusion process controls…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Jerome Droniou , Jennifer A. Flegg , Gopikrishnan C. Remesan

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 2017-05-23 Donatella Donatelli , Konstantina Trivisa

In this work, we propose a new model for flow through deformable porous media, where the solid material has two phases with distinct material properties. The two phases of the porous material follow a Cahn-Hilliard type evolution, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

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

In this article we shall trace the historical development of tumour growth laws, which in a quantitative fashion describe the increase in tumour mass/volume over time. These models are usually formulated in terms of differential equations…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-11 P. Gerlee

Phase-field models of tumour growth have proved useful as theoretical tools to investigate cancer invasion. A key implicit assumption underlying mathematical models of this type which have so far been proposed, though, is that cells in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Tommaso Lorenzi , Giulia Pozzi , Andrea Signori