On a diffuse interface model of tumour growth

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Abstract: We consider a diffuse interface model of tumor growth proposed by A.~Hawkins-Daruud et al. This model consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the tumor cell fraction varphi nonlinearly coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation for psi, which represents the nutrient-rich extracellular water volume fraction. The coupling is expressed through a suitable proliferation function p(varphi) multiplied by the differences of the chemical potentials for varphi and psi. The system is equipped with no-flux boundary conditions which entails the conservation of the total mass, that is, the spatial average of varphi+psi. Here we prove the existence of a weak solution to the associated Cauchy problem, provided that the potential F and p satisfy sufficiently general conditions. Then we show that the weak solution is unique and continuously depends on the initial data, provided that p satisfies slightly stronger growth restrictions. Also, we demonstrate the existence of a strong solution and that any weak solution regularizes in finite time. Finally, we prove the existence of the global attractor in a phase space characterized by an a priori bounded energy.



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