A level-set approach for a multi-scale cancer invasion model
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Published:2021-03-15
Issue:1
Volume:2
Page:32-54
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ISSN:2563-1926
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Container-title:Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering
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language:
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Short-container-title:Math Appl Sci Eng
Author:
Carraro Thomas,Wetterauer Sven E.,Ponce Bobadilla Ana Victoria,Trucu Dumitru
Abstract
The quest for a deeper understanding of the cancer growth and spread process focuses on the naturally multiscale nature of cancer invasion, which requires an appropriate multiscale modeling and analysis approach. The cross-talk between the dynamics of the cancer cell population on the tissue scale (macroscale) and the proteolytic molecular processes along the tumor border on the cell scale (microscale) plays a particularly important role within the invasion processes, leading to dramatic changes in tumor morphology and influencing the overall pattern of cancer spread. Building on the multiscale moving boundary framework proposed in Trucu et al. (Multiscale Model. Simul 11(1): 309-335), in this work we propose a new formulation of this process involving a novel derivation of the macro scale boundary movement law based on micro-dynamics, involving a transport equation combined with the level-set method. This is explored numerically in a novel finite element macro-micro framework based on cut-cells.
Publisher
University of Western Ontario, Western Libraries
Cited by
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