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May  2019, 39(5): 2473-2510. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019105

Bifurcation from stability to instability for a free boundary tumor model with angiogenesis

Yaodan Huang 1, , Zhengce Zhang 1,, and  Bei Hu 2,

1. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
2. 

Department of Applied Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

* Corresponding author: Zhengce Zhang

Received  January 2018 Revised  October 2018 Published  January 2019

In this paper we consider a free boundary tumor model with angiogenesis. The model consists of a reaction-diffusion equation describing the concentration of nutrients $ \sigma $ and an elliptic equation describing the distribution of the internal pressure $ p $. The vasculature supplies nutrients to the tumor, so that $ \frac{\partial\sigma}{\partial \mathbf{n}}+\beta(\sigma-\bar{\sigma}) = 0 $ holds on the boundary, where a positive constant $ \beta $ is the rate of nutrient supply to the tumor and $ \bar{\sigma} $ is the nutrient concentration outside the tumor. The tumor cells proliferate at a rate $ \mu $. If $ 0<\widetilde{\sigma}<\overline{\sigma} $, where $ \widetilde{\sigma} $ is a threshold concentration for proliferating, then there exists a unique radially symmetric stationary solution $ (\sigma_S(r), p_S(r), R_S) $. In this paper, we found a function $ \mu^\ast = \mu^\ast(R_S) $ such that if $ \mu<\mu^\ast $ then the radially symmetric stationary solution is linearly stable with respect to non-radially symmetric perturbations, whereas if $ \mu>\mu^\ast $ then the radially symmetric stationary solution is linearly unstable.

Keywords: Free boundary problems, tumor growth, angiogenesis, stationary solution, stability, instability.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B35, 35R35, 35B40, 35C10, 92C37.
Citation: Yaodan Huang, Zhengce Zhang, Bei Hu. Bifurcation from stability to instability for a free boundary tumor model with angiogenesis. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2019, 39 (5) : 2473-2510. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019105
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B. V. Bazaliy and A. Friedman, Global existence and asymptotic stability for an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem: an application to a model of tumor growth, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 52 (2003), 1265-1304.  doi: 10.1512/iumj.2003.52.2317.  Google Scholar

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[39]

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Y. D. Huang, Z. C. Zhang and B. Hu, Bifurcation for a free-boundary tumor model with angiogenesis, Nonlinear. Anal. Real World Appl., 35 (2017), 483-502.  doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2016.12.003.  Google Scholar

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J. S. Lowengrub, H. B. Frieboes, F. Jin, Y.-L. Chuang, X. Li, P. Macklin, S. M. Wise and V. Cristini, Nonlinear modelling of cancer: Bridging the gap between cells and tumours, Nonlinearity, 23 (2010), 1-91.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/23/1/R01.  Google Scholar

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