Bifurcation analysis of an elliptic free boundary problem modelling the growth of avascular tumors

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 210-235

  Cui, Shangbin ^a   Escher, Joachim ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Elliptic equations; Free boundary problem; Surface tension; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURFACE TENSION;

ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM; TUMOR GROWTH;

TUMORS;

EID: 39449127707     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060657509     Document Type: Article

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