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A distributed optimal control problem for a phase field system which physical context is that of tumor growth is discussed. The system we are going to take into account consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase variable (relative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Andrea Signori

We study a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with mass sources, which can be considered as a basic, though simplified, diffuse interface model for the evolution of tumor growth. This system is equipped with an impermeability condition for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Marco Abatangelo , Cecilia Cavaterra , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with mass sources that arises in the modeling of tumor growth. The aim is to monitor the tumor fraction in a finite time interval in such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Juergen Sprekels , Hao Wu

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 study an optimal control problem for a macroscopic mechanical tumour model based on the phase field approach. The model couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation to a system of linear elasticity and a reaction-diffusion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Andrea Signori

This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn-Hilliard type including chemotaxis. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a variational inequality corresponding to a double obstacle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

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

We study an optimal control problem for a stochastic model of tumour growth with drug application. This model consists of three stochastic hyperbolic equations describing the evolution of tumour cells. It also includes two stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Sakine Esmaili , M. R. Eslahchi , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper we study optimal control problem for non local Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system which models phase separation of binary fluids in porous media. We consider the system in two dimensional bounded domain with regular potential. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Sheetal Dharmatti , Mahendranath PL N

A distributed optimal control problem for an extended model of phase field type for tumor growth is addressed. In this model, the chemotaxis effects are also taken into account. The control is realized by two control variables that design…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

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

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 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

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 derive a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy model to describe multiphase tumour growth taking interactions with multiple chemical species into account as well as the simultaneous occurrence of proliferating, quiescent and necrotic regions. Via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Emanuel Sitka

We extend previous weak well-posedness results obtained in Frigeri et al. (2017) concerning a non-local variant of a diffuse interface tumor model proposed by Hawkins-Daarud et al. (2012). The model consists of a non-local Cahn--Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 S. Frigeri , K. F. Lam , A. 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

In this paper, we tackle the problem of reconstructing earlier tumour configurations starting from a single spatial measurement at a later time. We describe the tumour evolution through a diffuse interface model coupling a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Abramo Agosti , Elena Beretta , Cecilia Cavaterra , Matteo Fornoni , Elisabetta Rocca

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

This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of viscous Cahn--Hilliard type. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a thermodynamic force induced by a double-well potential of logarithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jürgen Sprekels , Fredi Tröltzsch