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We consider a diffuse interface model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation, which models a tumor growing in the presence of a nutrient species and surrounded by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

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

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

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 a distributed optimal control problem for a diffuse interface model for tumor growth. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type equation for the phase field variable coupled to a reaction diffusion equation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Matthias Ebenbeck , Patrik Knopf

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

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

We study a phase field model proposed recently in the context of tumour growth. The model couples a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman (CHB) system with a elliptic reaction-diffusion equation for a nutrient. The fluid velocity, governed by the Brinkman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Matthias Ebenbeck , Kei Fong Lam

In this paper, we study a phase field model for a tumor growth model of Cahn--Hilliard type in which the often assumed parabolic relaxation of the chemical potential is replaced by a hyperbolic one. We show that the resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a phase-field system modelling solid tumour growth. This system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a nutrient equation. The former is characterised by a degenerate mobility and a singular potential. Both equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Cecilia Cavaterra , Matteo Fornoni , Maurizio Grasselli , Benoît Perthame

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

We study the existence of weak solutions to a mixture model for tumour growth that consists of a Cahn--Hilliard--Darcy system coupled with an elliptic reaction-diffusion equation. The Darcy law gives rise to an elliptic equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

We consider a particular phase field system which physical context is that of tumor growth dynamics. The model we deal with consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type equation governing the evolution of the phase variable which takes into account the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Andrea Signori

In this paper, we study a distributed optimal control problem for a diffuse interface model for tumor growth. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type equation for the phase field variable coupled to a reaction diffusion equation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Matthias Ebenbeck , Patrik Knopf

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

The paper deals with a phase field system of Cahn-Hilliard type. For positive viscosity coefficients, the authors prove an existence and uniqueness result and study the long time behavior of the solution by assuming the nonlinearities to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Danielle Hilhorst

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

Mechanical effects have mostly been neglected so far in phase field tumour models that are based on a Cahn-Hilliard approach. In this paper we study a macroscopic mechanical model for tumour growth in which cell-cell adhesion effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Andrea Signori

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 the present work, we develop a comprehensive and rigorous analytical framework for a non-local phase-field model that describes tumour growth dynamics. The model is derived by coupling a non-local Cahn-Hilliard equation with a parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Maurizio Grasselli , Luca Melzi , Andrea Signori
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