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Main Authors: Lai, Chen-Chih, Lu, Hongbo
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16416
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author Lai, Chen-Chih
Lu, Hongbo
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Lu, Hongbo
contents We rigorously derive the joint limit of vanishing viscosity, singular pressure, and discrete-to-continuous phenotype structure in a class of tissue growth models. Starting from a viscoelastic (Brinkman-type) system describing multiple interacting phenotypes, where pressure depends nonlinearly on total cell density, we establish convergence to an incompressible Darcy-type model with a continuous phenotypic structure. Our analysis builds upon recent advances on the Brinkman-to-Darcy limit and incompressible transitions by David, Jacob, and Kim [arXiv:2503.18870], and on hydrodynamic limits for phenotype-structured populations by Debiec, Mandal, and Schmidtchen [J. Differential Equations 2025]. A key novelty lies in combining all three singular limits simultaneously, under uniform a priori estimates, compactness in space-phenotype-time, and a generalized entropy-dissipation structure. This provides a unified framework for modeling constrained tissue growth with mechanical feedback and phenotypic plasticity.
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spellingShingle Joint inviscid, incompressible, and continuous phenotype limit in nonlocal models of tissue growth
Lai, Chen-Chih
Lu, Hongbo
Analysis of PDEs
We rigorously derive the joint limit of vanishing viscosity, singular pressure, and discrete-to-continuous phenotype structure in a class of tissue growth models. Starting from a viscoelastic (Brinkman-type) system describing multiple interacting phenotypes, where pressure depends nonlinearly on total cell density, we establish convergence to an incompressible Darcy-type model with a continuous phenotypic structure. Our analysis builds upon recent advances on the Brinkman-to-Darcy limit and incompressible transitions by David, Jacob, and Kim [arXiv:2503.18870], and on hydrodynamic limits for phenotype-structured populations by Debiec, Mandal, and Schmidtchen [J. Differential Equations 2025]. A key novelty lies in combining all three singular limits simultaneously, under uniform a priori estimates, compactness in space-phenotype-time, and a generalized entropy-dissipation structure. This provides a unified framework for modeling constrained tissue growth with mechanical feedback and phenotypic plasticity.
title Joint inviscid, incompressible, and continuous phenotype limit in nonlocal models of tissue growth
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16416