Multiphase modeling and qualitative analysis of the growth of tumor cords

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-83

  Tosin, Andrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Free boundary problems; Mathematical modeling; Theory of mixtures; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; NUTRIENTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

DEFORMABLE POROUS MEDIA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FREE-BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORY OF MIXTURES; TUMOR GROWTH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM;

TUMORS;

EID: 56649090976     PISSN: 15561801     EISSN: 1556181X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/nhm.2008.3.43     Document Type: Article

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