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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Colli, Pierluigia; * | Gilardi, Giannia | Sprekels, Jürgenb; c
Affiliations: [a] Dipartimento di Matematica “F. Casorati”, Università di Pavia and Research Associate at the IMATI – C.N.R. Pavia, via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy. E-mails: pierluigi.colli@unipv.it, gianni.gilardi@unipv.it | [b] Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany | [c] Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Mohrenstrasse 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: sprekels@wias-berlin.de
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: pierluigi.colli@unipv.it.
Abstract: In this paper, we study a system of three evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, monotone, unbounded, linear operators having compact resolvents. This system constitutes a generalized and relaxed version of a phase field system of Cahn–Hilliard type modelling tumor growth that has originally been proposed in Hawkins-Daarud et al. (Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Eng. 28 (2012), 3–24). The original phase field system and certain relaxed versions thereof have been studied in recent papers co-authored by the present authors and E. Rocca. The model consists of a Cahn–Hilliard equation for the tumor cell fraction φ, coupled to a reaction–diffusion equation for a function S representing the nutrient-rich extracellular water volume fraction. Effects due to fluid motion are neglected. Motivated by the possibility that the diffusional regimes governing the evolution of the different constituents of the model may be of different (e.g., fractional) type, the present authors studied in a recent note a generalization of the systems investigated in the abovementioned works. Under rather general assumptions, well-posedness and regularity results have been shown. In particular, by writing the equation governing the evolution of the chemical potential in the form of a general variational inequality, also singular or nonsmooth contributions of logarithmic or of double obstacle type to the energy density could be admitted. In this note, we perform an asymptotic analysis of the governing system as two (small) relaxation parameters approach zero separately and simultaneously. Corresponding well-posedness and regularity results are established for the respective cases; in particular, we give a detailed discussion which assumptions on the admissible nonlinearities have to be postulated in each of the occurring cases.
Keywords: Fractional operators, Cahn–Hilliard systems, well-posedness, regularity of solutions, tumor growth models, asymptotic analysis
DOI: 10.3233/ASY-191578
Journal: Asymptotic Analysis, vol. 120, no. 1-2, pp. 41-72, 2020
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