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Analysis of a multi-species Cahn-Hilliard-Keller-Segel tumor growth model with chemotaxis and angiogenesis. (English) Zbl 07869058

Summary: We introduce a multi-species diffuse interface model for tumor growth, characterized by its incorporation of essential features related to chemotaxis, angiogenesis and proliferation mechanisms. We establish the weak well-posedness of the system within an appropriate variational framework, accommodating various choices for the nonlinear potentials. One of the primary novelties of the work lies in the rigorous establishment of the existence of a weak solution through the introduction of delicate approximation schemes. To our knowledge, this represents a novel advancement for both the intricate Cahn-Hilliard-Keller-Segel system and the Keller-Segel subsystem with source terms. Moreover, when specific conditions are met, such as having more regular initial data, a smallness condition on the chemotactic constant with respect to the magnitude of initial conditions and potentially focusing solely on the two-dimensional case, we provide regularity results for the weak solutions. Finally, we derive a continuous dependence estimate, which, in turn, leads to the uniqueness of the smoothed solution as a natural consequence.

MSC:

35D30 Weak solutions to PDEs
35B65 Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs
35K52 Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic systems
35K57 Reaction-diffusion equations
35K86 Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators
35Q92 PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences
35Q35 PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics
92C17 Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.)
92C50 Medical applications (general)

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