Sparse Optimal Control of a Phase Field Tumor Model with Mechanical Effects

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Abstract: In this paper, we study an optimal control problem for a macroscopic mechanical tumour model based on the phase field approach. The model couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation to a system of linear elasticity and a reaction-diffusion equation for a nutrient concentration. By taking advantage of previous analytical well-posedness results established by the authors, we seek optimal controls in the form of a boundary nutrient supply, as well as concentrations of cytotoxic and antiangiogenic drugs that minimise a cost functional involving mechanical stresses. Special attention is given to sparsity effects, where with the inclusion of convex non-differentiable regularisation terms to the cost functional, we can infer from the first-order optimality conditions that the optimal drug concentrations can vanish on certain time intervals.




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