On the hyperbolic relaxation of the chemical potential in a phase field tumor growth model
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| author | Colli, Pierluigi Rocca, Elisabetta Sprekels, Jürgen |
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| contents | In this paper, we study a phase field model for a tumor growth model of Cahn--Hilliard type in which the often assumed parabolic relaxation of the chemical potential is replaced by a hyperbolic one. We show that the resulting initial-boundary value problem is well posed and that its solutions depend continuously on two given functions: one appearing in the mass balance equation and one in the nutrient equation, representing, respectively, sources of drugs (e.g. chemotherapy) and antiangiogenic therapy. We also discuss regularity properties of the solutions. Moreover, in the case of a constant proliferation function, we rigorously analyze the asymptotic behavior as the coefficient of the inertial term tends to zero, establishing convergence to the corresponding viscous Cahn--Hilliard tumor growth model. Our results apply to a broad class of double-well potentials, including nonsmooth ones. |
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| spellingShingle | On the hyperbolic relaxation of the chemical potential in a phase field tumor growth model Colli, Pierluigi Rocca, Elisabetta Sprekels, Jürgen Analysis of PDEs 35M33, 37N25, 35K57, 35B30, 35B65, 35B40 In this paper, we study a phase field model for a tumor growth model of Cahn--Hilliard type in which the often assumed parabolic relaxation of the chemical potential is replaced by a hyperbolic one. We show that the resulting initial-boundary value problem is well posed and that its solutions depend continuously on two given functions: one appearing in the mass balance equation and one in the nutrient equation, representing, respectively, sources of drugs (e.g. chemotherapy) and antiangiogenic therapy. We also discuss regularity properties of the solutions. Moreover, in the case of a constant proliferation function, we rigorously analyze the asymptotic behavior as the coefficient of the inertial term tends to zero, establishing convergence to the corresponding viscous Cahn--Hilliard tumor growth model. Our results apply to a broad class of double-well potentials, including nonsmooth ones. |
| title | On the hyperbolic relaxation of the chemical potential in a phase field tumor growth model |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs 35M33, 37N25, 35K57, 35B30, 35B65, 35B40 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21489 |