On a multi-species Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy tumor growth model with singular potentials

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Abstract: We consider a model describing the evolution of a tumor inside a host tissue in terms of the parameters varphip, varphid (proliferating and dead cells, respectively), u (cell velocity) and n (nutrient concentration). The variables varphip, varphid satisfy a Cahn-Hilliard type system with nonzero forcing term (implying that their spatial means are not conserved in time), whereas u obeys a form of the Darcy law and n satisfies a quasistatic diffusion equation. The main novelty of the present work stands in the fact that we are able to consider a configuration potential of singular type implying that the concentration vector (varphip,varphid) is constrained to remain in the range of physically admissible values. On the other hand, in view of the presence of nonzero forcing terms, this choice gives rise to a number of mathematical difficulties, especially related to the control of the mean values of varphip and varphid. For the resulting mathematical problem, by imposing suitable initial-boundary conditions, our main result concerns the existence of weak solutions in a proper regularity class.





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