Theoretical and numerical analysis for a hybrid tumor model with diffusion depending on vasculature

In this work we analyse a PDE-ODE problem modelling the evolution of a Glioblastoma, which includes an anisotropic nonlinear diffusion term with a diffusion velocity increasing with respect to vasculature. First, we prove the existence of global in time weak-strong solutions using a regularization t...

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Autores: Fernández Romero, Antonio, Guillén González, Francisco Manuel, Suárez Fernández, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:idus________::3c6334ff00c5e9f4aaf3be044bb9a630
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/186511
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2021.125325
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tumor model
Glioblastoma
PDE-ODE system
Numerical scheme
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Sumario:In this work we analyse a PDE-ODE problem modelling the evolution of a Glioblastoma, which includes an anisotropic nonlinear diffusion term with a diffusion velocity increasing with respect to vasculature. First, we prove the existence of global in time weak-strong solutions using a regularization technique via an artificial diffusion in the ODE-system and a fixed point argument. In addition, stability results of the critical points are given under some constraints on parameters. Finally, we design a fully discrete finite element scheme for the model which preserves the pointwise and energy estimates of the continuous problem.