WIAS Preprint No. 2614, (2019)

Optimal control of a phase field system modelling tumor growth with chemotaxis and singular potentials



Authors

  • Colli, Pierluigi
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7921-5041
  • Signori, Andrea
    ORCID: 0000-0001-7025-977X
  • Sprekels, Jürgen
    ORCID: 0009-0000-0618-8604

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35K55 35Q92 49J20 92C50

Keywords

  • Distributed optimal control, tumor growth, cancer treatment, phase field system, evolution equations, chemotaxis, adjoint system, necessary optimality conditions

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2614

Abstract

A distributed optimal control problem for an extended model of phase field type for tumor growth is addressed. In this model, the chemotaxis effects are also taken into account. The control is realized by two control variables that design the dispensation of some drugs to the patient. The cost functional is of tracking type, whereas the potential setting has been kept quite general in order to allow regular and singular potentials to be considered. In this direction, some relaxation terms have been introduced in the system. We show the well-posedness of the state system, the Fréchet differentiability of the control-to-state operator in a suitable functional analytic framework, and, lastly, we characterize the first-order necessary conditions of optimality in terms of a variational inequality involving the adjoint variables.

Appeared in

  • Appl. Math. Optim., 83 (2021), pp. 2017--2049 (published online on 21.10.2019), and 2021 Correction to: Optimal control of a phase field system modelling tumor growth with chemotaxis and singular potentials (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00245-021-09771-x), DOI 10.1007/s00245-019-09618-6 .

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