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The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation provides a natural extension of the classical model for phase separation by incorporating long-range interactions through a singular convolution kernel. While this formulation admits a rich existence and…

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We consider a one--spatial dimensional tumour growth model [2, 3, 4] that consists of three dependent variables of space and time: volume fraction of tumour cells, velocity of tumour cells, and nutrient concentration. The model variables…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Gopikrishnan Chirappurathu Remesan

Currently, most of the basic mechanisms governing tumor-immune system interactions, in combination with modulations of tumor-associated vasculature, are far from being completely understood. Here, we propose a mathematical model of…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-07 H. Hatzikirou , J. C. L. Alfonso , S. Muhle , C. Stern , S. Weiss , M. Meyer-Hermann

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

Formulating tumor models that predict growth under therapy is vital for improving patient-specific treatment plans. In this context, we present our recent work on simulating non-small-scale cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a simple,…

We consider optimal control problems that have binary-valued control input functions and a perimeter regularization. We develop and analyze a trust-region algorithm that solves a sequence of subproblems in which the regularization term and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Paul Manns , Vanja Nikolić

In this paper, we study the tumor growth equation along with various models for the nutrient component, including the \emph{in vitro} model and the \emph{in vivo} model. At the cell density level, the spatial availability of the tumor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Jian-Guo Liu , Min Tang , Li Wang , Zhennan Zhou

A systematic understanding of the evolution and growth dynamics of invasive solid tumors in response to different chemotherapy strategies is crucial for the development of individually optimized oncotherapy. Here, we develop a hybrid…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Hang Xie , Yang Jiao , Qihui Fan , Miaomiao Hai , Jiaen Yang , Zhijian Hu , Yue Yang , Jianwei Shuai , Guo Chen , Ruchuan Liu , Liyu Liu

We study some optimal control problems associated to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immisible fluids in a two-dimensional bounded domain. The Cahn- Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model consists of a Navier-Stokes equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

A novel numerical technique has been proposed to solve a two-phase tumour growth model in one spatial dimension without needing to account for the boundary dynamics explicitly. The equivalence to the standard definition of a weak solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Gopikrishnan C. Remesan

In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a coupled non-linear system of reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion, consisting of two partial differential equations representing the density of cells and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Georges Chamoun , Mazen Saad , Toni Sayah , Sarah Serhal

In this paper, we study an initial boundary value problem of the Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with a non-autonomous mass source term $S$ that models tumor growth. We first prove the existence of global weak solutions as well as the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Jie Jiang , Hao Wu , Songmu Zheng

In cancer research, the role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and its associated matrix-degrading enzyme (MDE) has been a significant area of focus. This study presents a numerical algorithm designed to simulate a previously established…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Qiumei Huang , Zhonghua Qiao , Cheng Wang , Huiting Yang

A Cahn-Hilliard equation with stochastic multiplicative noise and a random convection term is considered. The model describes isothermal phase-separation occurring in a moving fluid, and accounts for the randomness appearing at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Luca Scarpa

In the present article the diffusion equation is used to model the spatio-temporal dynamics of a tumor, taking into account the heterogeneous of the medium. This approach makes it possible to take into account the complex geometric shape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Maxim V. Polyakov , Valeria V. Ten

In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems for a one-dimensional time-discrete constrained quasilinear diffusion state-systems of singular Allen--Cahn types and its regularized approximating problems. We note that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Shodai Kubota

In this paper, we develop a sharp interface tumor growth model to study the effect of the tumor microenvironment using a complex far-field geometry that mimics a heterogeneous distribution of vasculature. Together with different nutrient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Min-Jhe Lu , Chun Liu , John Lowengrub , Shuwang Li

In this paper, we develop a sharp interface tumor growth model in two dimensions to study the effect of both the intratumoral structure using a controlled necrotic core and the extratumoral nutrient supply from vasculature on tumor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Min-Jhe Lu , Wenrui Hao , Chun Liu , John Lowengrub , Shuwang Li

We consider a system of two coupled integro-differential equations modelling populations of healthy and cancer cells under therapy. Both populations are structured by a phenotypic variable, representing their level of resistance to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Camille Pouchol , Jean Clairambault , Alexander Lorz , Emmanuel Trélat

We develop an existence and regularity theory for solutions to a geometric free boundary problem motivated by models of tumor growth. In this setting, the tumor invades an accessible region $D$, its motion is directed along a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Giulia Bevilacqua , Matteo Carducci