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We analyze a phase field model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system, ruling the evolution of the tumor mass, coupled with an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for a chemical species acting as a nutrient. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We study a moving boundary problem describing the growth of nonnecrotic tumors in different regimes of vascularisation. This model consists of two decoupled Dirichlet problem, one for the rate at which nutrient is added to the tumor domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-05 Joachim Escher , Anca-Voichita Matioc

For tumor growth, the morphological instability provides a mechanism for invasion via tumor fingering and fragmentation. This work considers the asymptotic stability of a free boundary tumor model with a periodic supply of external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Yaodan Huang

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear free boundary problem modeling the growth of spherically symmetric tumors with angiogenesis, set with a Robin boundary condition. In which, both nonnecrotic tumors and necrotic tumors are taken into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Huijuan Song , Wentao Hu , Zejia Wang

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

In this paper we deal with a free boundary problem modeling the growth of nonnecrotic tumors.The tumor is treated as an incompressible fluid, the tissue elasticity is neglected and no chemical inhibitor species are present. We re-express…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-08 Joachim Escher , Anca-Voichita Matioc

This paper is concerned with a multi-dimensional free boundary problem modeling the growth of a tumor with two species of cells: proliferating cells and quiescent cells. This free boundary problem has a unique radial stationary solution. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Shangbin Cui

This paper aims at proving asymptotic stability of the radial stationary solution of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of nonnecrotic tumors with fluid-like tissues. In a previous paper we considered the case where the nutrient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-10 Junde Wu , Shangbin Cui

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

In this paper, we consider a free boundary multi-layer tumor model that incorporates a $T-$periodic provision of external nutrients $\Phi(t)$. The simplified model contains three parameters: the mean of periodic external nutrients…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Wenhua He , Mingxin Wang , Ruixiang Xing

In this paper, we consider a 3-dimensional free boundary problem modeling tumor growth with the Robin boundary condition. The system involves a positive parameter $\mu$ which reflects the intensity of tumor aggressiveness. Huang, Zhang and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Junying Chen , Ruixiang Xing

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

In this paper we consider a free boundary tumor growth model with a time delay in cell proliferation and study how time delay affects the stability and the size of the tumor. The model is a coupled system of an elliptic equation, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Xinyue Evelyn Zhao , Bei Hu

We investigate the long-time dynamics and optimal control problem of a diffuse interface model that describes the growth of a tumor in presence of a nutrient and surrounded by host tissues. The state system consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Cecilia Cavaterra , Elisabetta Rocca , Hao Wu

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

We consider a model describing the evolution of a tumor inside a host tissue in terms of the parameters $\varphi_p$, $\varphi_d$ (proliferating and dead cells, respectively), $u$ (cell velocity) and $n$ (nutrient concentration). The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Sergio Frigeri , Kei Fong Lam , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We consider a class of tumor growth models under the combined effects of density-dependent pressure and cell multiplication, with a free boundary model as its singular limit when the pressure-density relationship becomes highly nonlinear.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Jian-Guo Liu , Min Tang , Li Wang , Zhennan Zhou

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

Understanding the untreated tumor growth kinetics and its intrinsic findings is interesting and intriguing. The aim of this study is to propose an approximate analytical expression that allows to simulate changes in surface charge density…

In this paper we study a nonlinear free boundary problem on the radial growth of a two-layer solid tumor with a quiescent core. The tumor surface and its inner interface separating the proliferating cells and the quiescent cells are both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Junde Wu , Hao Xu , Yuehong Zhuang