Stationary solutions of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of vascular tumors with a necrotic core

Huijuan Song; Bei Hu; Zejia Wang

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January 2021, 26(1): 667-691. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020084

Stationary solutions of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of vascular tumors with a necrotic core

Huijuan Song ^1, , Bei Hu ^2, and Zejia Wang ^1,

1.	College of Mathematics and Information Science, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
2.	Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

Received September 2019 Revised November 2019 Published January 2020

In this paper, we present a rigorous mathematical analysis of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of a vascular solid tumor with a necrotic core. If the vascular system supplies the nutrient concentration $ \sigma $ to the tumor at a rate $ \beta $, then $ \frac{\partial\sigma}{\partial\bf n}+\beta(\sigma-\bar\sigma) = 0 $ holds on the tumor boundary, where $ \bf n $ is the unit outward normal to the boundary and $ \bar\sigma $ is the nutrient concentration outside the tumor. The living cells in the nonnecrotic region proliferate at a rate $ \mu $. We show that for any given $ \rho>0 $, there exists a unique $ R\in(\rho, \infty) $ such that the corresponding radially symmetric solution solves the steady-state necrotic tumor system with necrotic core boundary $ r = \rho $ and outer boundary $ r = R $; moreover, there exist a positive integer $ n^{**} $ and a sequence of $ \mu_n $, symmetry-breaking stationary solutions bifurcate from the radially symmetric stationary solution for each $ \mu_n $ (even $ n\ge n^{**}) $.

Keywords: Stationary solution, free boundary problem, vascular tumor, necrotic core, bifurcation.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R35, 35K57, 35B32; Secondary: 35B35, 92B05.

Citation: Huijuan Song, Bei Hu, Zejia Wang. Stationary solutions of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of vascular tumors with a necrotic core. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2021, 26 (1) : 667-691. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020084

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[7]	M. G. Crandall and P. H. Rabinowitz, Bifurcation from simple eigenvalues, J. Functional Analysis, 8 (1971), 321-340. doi: 10.1016/0022-1236(71)90015-2. Google Scholar
[8]	V. Cristini, J. Lowengrub and Q. Nie, Nonlinear simulation of tumor growth, J. Math. Biol., 46 (2003), 191-224. doi: 10.1007/s00285-002-0174-6. Google Scholar
[9]	S. Cui and A. Friedman, Analysis of a mathematical model of the growth of necrotic tumors, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 255 (2001), 636-677. doi: 10.1006/jmaa.2000.7306. Google Scholar
[10]	S. Cui, Global existence of solutions for a free boundary problem modeling the growth of necrotic tumors, Interfaces Free Bound., 7 (2005), 147-159. doi: 10.4171/IFB/118. Google Scholar
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[38]	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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[42]	H. Shen, X. Wei, C. Liu and Z. Feng, Existence and uniqueness of the stationary solution of mathematical model of necrotic tumor with the third boundary, Acta Sci. Natur. Univ. Sunyatseni, 57 (2018), 140-144. Google Scholar
[43]	Z. Wang, Bifurcation for a free boundary problem modeling tumor growth with inhibitors, Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl., 19 (2014), 45-53. doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2014.03.001. Google Scholar
[44]	Z. Wang, S. Xu and H. Song, Stationary solutions of a free boundary problem modeling growth of angiogenesis tumor with inhibitor, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 23 (2018), 2593-2605. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018129. Google Scholar
[45]	X. Wei, Global existence for a free boundary problem modelling the growth of necrotic tumors in the presence of inhibitors, Int. J. Pure Appl. Math., 28 (2006), 321-338. Google Scholar
[46]	J. Wu, Stationary solutions of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of tumors with Gibbs-Thomson relation, J. Differential Equations, 260 (2016), 5875-5893. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2015.12.023. Google Scholar
[47]	J. Wu, Bifurcation for a free boundary problem modeling the growth of necrotic multilayered tumors, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 39 (2019), 3399-3411. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019140. Google Scholar
[48]	J. Wu, Asymptotic stability of a free boundary problem for the growth of multi-layer tumours in the necrotic phase, Nonlinearity, 32 (2019), 2955-2974. doi: 10.1088/1361-6544/ab15a8. Google Scholar
[49]	J. Wu and S. Cui, Asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a free boundary problem modelling the growth of tumours in the presence of inhibitors, Nonlinearity, 20 (2007), 2389-2408. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/20/10/007. Google Scholar
[50]	J. Wu and S. Cui, Bifurcation analysis of a mathematical model for the growth of solid tumors in the presence of external inhibitors, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 38 (2015), 1813-1823. doi: 10.1002/mma.3190. Google Scholar
[51]	S. Xu and M. Bai, Stability of solutions to a mathematical model for necrotic tumor growth with time delays in proliferation, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 421 (2015), 955-962. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.07.029. Google Scholar
[52]	F. Zhou and S. Cui, Bifurcation for a free boundary problem modeling the growth of multi-layer tumors, Nonlinear Anal., 68 (2008), 2128-2145. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2007.01.036. Google Scholar
[53]	F. Zhou, J. Escher and S. Cui, Bifurcation for a free boundary problem with surface tension modeling the growth of multi-layer tumors, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 337 (2008), 443-457. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.03.107. Google Scholar
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[55]	Y. Zhuang and S. Cui, Analysis of a free boundary problem modeling the growth of multicell spheroids with angiogenesis, J. Differential Equations, 265 (2018), 620-644. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2018.03.005. Google Scholar
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