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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 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 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

In the present review we focus on the chemotaxis-consumption model $\partial_t u - \Delta u = - \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v)$ and $\partial_t v - \Delta v = - u^s v$ in $(0,T) \times \Omega$, for any fixed $s \geq 1$, endowed with isolated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-12 André Luiz Corrêa Vianna Filho , Francisco Guillén-González

In this work, we present and analyse a system of coupled partial differential equations, which models tumour growth under the influence of subdiffusion, mechanical effects, nutrient supply, and chemotherapy. The subdiffusion of the system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Marvin Fritz , Christina Kuttler , Mabel L. Rajendran , Barbara Wohlmuth , Laura Scarabosio

The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations that describes the movement of cells or organisms in response to chemical signals, a phenomenon known as chemotaxis. In this study, we analyze a doubly parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Anne Caroline Bronzi , Crystianne Lilian de Andrade

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

In the present work we investigate an optimal control problem related to the following chemotaxis-consumption model in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$: $$\partial_t u - \Delta u = - \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v), \quad \partial_t…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Francisco Guillén-González , André Luiz Corrêa Vianna Filho

As a class of nonlinear partial differential equations, the Keller-Segel system is widely used to model chemotaxis in biology. In this paper, we present the construction and analysis of a decoupled linear, mass-conservative, block-centered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Jie Xu , Hongfei Fu

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 present an optimal control problem to guide the selection of morphology classes arising in organic solar cells. The study focuses on phase separation processes in polymer solvent mixtures, with particular attention to solvent evaporation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Arghya Kundu , Adrian Muntean

Simulations are performed to investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a (2+1)-dimensional chemotaxis model of Keller-Segel (KS) type with a logistic growth term. Because of its ability to display auto-aggregation, the KS model has been widely…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 S. Banerjee , A. P. Misra , L. Rondoni

Chemotaxis systems of Keller--Segel type constitute one of the central mathematical frameworks for understanding aggregation phenomena in biological and ecological systems. Over the past decades, the theory has evolved from the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Kolade M Owolabi , Eben Mare , Clara O Ijalana , Kolawole S Adegbie

In this paper, we consider the fast numerical solution of an optimal control formulation of the Keller--Segel model for bacterial chemotaxis. Upon discretization, this problem requires the solution of huge-scale saddle point systems to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Sergey Dolgov , John W. Pearson

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

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 Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations modelling chemotactic aggregation in cellular systems. This model has blowing up solutions for large enough initial conditions in dimensions d >= 2, but all the solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Carlos Escudero

The purpose of this work is the study of \textit{chemotaxis} and how to model it through the equations of Keller-Segel. \textit{Chemotaxis} is a natural process which induces the organisms to direct their movement according to certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Alejandro Fernández-Jiménez

The phenomenon where cells with elongated protrusions, such as neurons, communicate by contacting other cells and arrange themselves appropriately is termed cell sorting through haptotaxis. This phenomenon is described by partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Hiroshi Ishii , Hideki Murakawa , Yoshitaro Tanaka

The mathematical modeling of tumor growth has a long history, and has been mathematically formulated in several different ways. Here we tackle the problem in the case of a continuous distribution using mathematical tools from statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-08 L. Preziosi , G. Toscani , M. Zanella