Existence of weak solutions to multiphase Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy and Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman models for stratified tumor growth with chemotaxis and general source terms

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DOI10.1080/03605302.2021.1966803zbMATH Open1484.35148arXiv2105.09068OpenAlexW3198397443MaRDI QIDQ5037294FDOQ5037294


Authors: Patrik Knopf, Andrea Signori Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 February 2022

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a multiphase Cahn-Hilliard model for tumor growth with general source terms. The multiphase approach allows us to consider multiple cell types and multiple chemical species (oxygen and/or nutrients) that are consumed by the tumor. Compared to classical two-phase tumor growth models, the multiphase model can be used to describe a stratified tumor exhibiting several layers of tissue (e.g., proliferating, quiescent and necrotic tissue) more precisely. Our model consists of a convective Cahn-Hilliard type equation to describe the tumor evolution, a velocity equation for the associated volume-averaged velocity field, and a convective reaction-diffusion type equation to describe the density of the chemical species. The velocity equation is either represented by Darcy's law or by the Brinkman equation. We first construct a global weak solution of the multiphase Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman model. After that, we show that such weak solutions of the system converge to a weak solution of the multiphase Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system as the viscosities tend to zero in some suitable sense. This means that the existence of a global weak solution to the Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system is also established.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09068




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