A hyperbolic free boundary problem modeling tumor growth

Interfaces and Free Boundaries

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-181

  Cui, Shangbin ^a   Friedman, Avner ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead cells; Free boundary problem; Global solution; Proliferating cells; Quiescent cells; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979081677     PISSN: 14639963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/ifb/76     Document Type: Article

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