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We study the invasion of an unstable state by a propagating front in a peculiar but generic situation where the invasion process exhibits a remnant instability. Here, remnant instability refers to the fact that the spatially constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Gregory Faye , Matt Holzer , Arnd Scheel , Lars Siemer

We formulate haptotaxis models of cancer invasion wherein the infiltrating cancer cells can occupy a spectrum of states in phenotype space, ranging from `fully mesenchymal' to `fully epithelial'. The more mesenchymal cells are those that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Tommaso Lorenzi , Fiona R. Macfarlane , Kevin J. Painter

We study the biological situation when an invading population propagates and replaces an existing population with different characteristics. For instance, this may occur in the presence of a vertically transmitted infection causing a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Grégoire Nadin , Martin Strugarek , Nicolas Vauchelet

Integrating experimental data into ecological models plays a central role in understanding biological mechanisms that drive tumor progression where such knowledge can be used to develop new therapeutic strategies. While the current studies…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Youness Azimzade , Abbas Ali Saberi , Robert A. Gatenby

We propose and study a strongly coupled PDE-ODE system with tissue-dependent degenerate diffusion and haptotaxis that can serve as a model prototype for cancer cell invasion through the extracellular matrix. We prove the global existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Anna Zhigun , Christina Surulescu , Aydar Uatay

We study of the formation of pattern-forming fronts in the presence of a rigidly-propagating parameter ramp which is slowly-varying in space. In the context of the prototypical supercritical complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, we show that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-26 Ryan Goh , Benjamin Krewson , Nilay Patel , Kiersten Ratcliff

This paper concerns multiphase models of tumor growth in interaction with a surrounding tissue, taking into account also the interplay with diffusible nutrients feeding the cells. Models specialize in nonlinear systems of possibly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Andrea Tosin

Traveling fronts and stationary localized patterns in bistable reaction-diffusion systems have been broadly studied for classical continuous media and regular lattices. Analogs of such non-equilibrium patterns are also possible in networks.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-10-29 Nikos E. Kouvaris , Hiroshi Kori , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We present multiscale models of cancer tumor invasion with components at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels. We provide biological justifications for the model components, present computational results from the model, and discuss…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-14 Bruce P. Ayati , Glenn F. Webb , Alexander R. A. Anderson

We provide a short review of existing models with multiple taxis performed by (at least) one species and consider a new mathematical model for tumor invasion featuring two mutually exclusive cell phenotypes (migrating and proliferating).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Niklas Kolbe , Nikolaos Sfakianakis , Christian Stinner , Christina Surulescu , Jonas Lenz

We consider a two-component reaction-diffusion system that has previously been developed to model invasion of cells into a resident cell population. The system is an idealised version of models of tumour growth in which tumour cells degrade…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yuhui Chen , Michael C. Dallaston

We analyse a novel mathematical model of malignant invasion which takes the form of a two-phase moving boundary problem describing the invasion of a population of malignant cells into a population of background tissue, such as skin. Cells…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-04 Maud El-Hachem , Scott W McCue , Matthew J Simpson

Unstable dynamics characterizes the evolution of most solid tumors. Because of an increased failure of maintaining genome integrity, a cumulative increase in the levels of gene mutation and loss is observed. Previous work suggests that…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Daniel R. Amor , Ricard V. Solé

This study builds upon a model proposed by Joanny and collaborators that examines the dynamics of interfaces between two distinct cell populations, particularly during tumor growth in healthy tissues. This framework leads to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Juan Campos , Carlos Pulido , Juan Soler

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

The emergent dynamics in phase-separated mixtures of isometric active and passive Brownian particles is studied numerically in two dimensions. A novel steady-state of well-defined traveling fronts is observed, where the interface between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Adam Wysocki , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

Metastatic tumors often invade healthy neighboring tissues by forming multicellular finger-like protrusions emerging from the cancer mass. To understand the mechanical context behind this phenomenon, we here develop a minimalist fluid model…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Michał Bogdan , Thierry Savin

Known as one of the hallmarks of cancer [30], cancer cell invasion of human body tissue is a complicated spatio-temporal multiscale process which enables a localised solid tumour to transform into a systemic, metastatic and fatal disease.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Lu Peng , Dumitru Trucu , Ping Lin , Alastair Thompson , Mark A. J. Chaplain

We propose a multiscale model of the invasion of the extracellular matrix by two types of cancer cells, the differentiated cancer cells and the cancer stem cells. We assume that the epithelial mesenchymal-like transition between them is…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-19 Nikolaos Sfakianakis , Niklas Kolbe , Nadja Hellmann , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

We consider planar traveling fronts between stable steady states in two-component singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion-advection equations, where a small quantity $\delta^2$ represents the ratio of diffusion coefficients. The fronts…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Paul Carter