A homogenization result for planar, polygonal networks
A Hybrid Model Describing Different Morphologies of Tumor Invasion Fronts
The invasive capability is fundamental in determining the malignancy of a solid tumor. Revealing biomedical strategies that are able to partially decrease cancer invasiveness is therefore an important approach in the treatment of the disease and has given rise to multiple in vitro and in silico models. We here develop a hybrid computational framework, whose aim is to characterize the effects of the different cellular and subcellular mechanisms involved...
A hyperbolic model of chemotaxis on a network: a numerical study
In this paper we deal with a semilinear hyperbolic chemotaxis model in one space dimension evolving on a network, with suitable transmission conditions at nodes. This framework is motivated by tissue-engineering scaffolds used for improving wound healing. We introduce a numerical scheme, which guarantees global mass densities conservation. Moreover our scheme is able to yield a correct approximation of the effects of the source term at equilibrium. Several numerical tests are presented to show the...
A KAM-theorem for some nonlinear partial differential equations
A kinetic formulation for multi-branch entropy solutions of scalar conservation laws
A Lagrangian approach for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Here we investigate the Cauchy problem for the barotropic Navier-Stokes equations in , in the critical Besov spaces setting. We improve recent results as regards the uniqueness condition: initial velocities in critical Besov spaces with (not too) negative indices generate a unique local solution. Apart from (critical) regularity, the initial density just has to be bounded away from and to tend to some positive constant at infinity. Density-dependent viscosity coefficients may be considered. Using...
A lattice gas model for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation
We recover the Navier–Stokes equation as the incompressible limit of a stochastic lattice gas in which particles are allowed to jump over a mesoscopic scale. The result holds in any dimension assuming the existence of a smooth solution of the Navier–Stokes equation in a fixed time interval. The proof does not use nongradient methods or the multi-scale analysis due to the long range jumps.
A lemma and a conjecture on the cost of rearrangements
A linear mixed finite element scheme for a nematic Ericksen–Leslie liquid crystal model
In this work we study a fully discrete mixed scheme, based on continuous finite elements in space and a linear semi-implicit first-order integration in time, approximating an Ericksen–Leslie nematic liquid crystal model by means of a Ginzburg–Landau penalized problem. Conditional stability of this scheme is proved via a discrete version of the energy law satisfied by the continuous problem, and conditional convergence towards generalized Young measure-valued solutions to the Ericksen–Leslie problem...
A logarithmic extension of the Hölder inequality.
A logarithmic regularity criterion for 3D Navier-Stokes system in a bounded domain
This paper proves a logarithmic regularity criterion for 3D Navier-Stokes system in a bounded domain with the Navier-type boundary condition.
A look on some results about Camassa–Holm type equations
We present an overview of some contributions of the author regarding Camassa--Holm type equations. We show that an equation unifying both Camassa--Holm and Novikov equations can be derived using the invariance under certain suitable scaling, conservation of the Sobolev norm and existence of peakon solutions. Qualitative analysis of the two-peakon dynamics is given.
A lower bound for the principal eigenvalue of the Stokes operator in a random domain
This article is dedicated to localization of the principal eigenvalue (PE) of the Stokes operator acting on solenoidal vector fields that vanish outside a large random domain modeling the pore space in a cubic block of porous material with disordered micro-structure. Its main result is an asymptotically deterministic lower bound for the PE of the sum of a low compressibility approximation to the Stokes operator and a small scaled random potential term, which is applied to produce a similar bound...
A lower estimate of the interface of some nonlinear diffusion problems.
A mathematical model for core-annular flows with surfactants.
A mathematical model for resin transfer molding
A Mathematical Model of Cancer Stem Cell Lineage Population Dynamics with Mutation Accumulation and Telomere Length Hierarchies
There is evidence that cancer develops when cells acquire a sequence of mutations that alter normal cell characteristics. This sequence determines a hierarchy among the cells, based on how many more mutations they need to accumulate in order to become cancerous. When cells divide, they exhibit telomere loss and differentiate, which defines another cell hierarchy, on top of which is the stem cell. We propose a mutation-generation model, which combines...
A mathematical model of inflammation during ischemic stroke
In this article we propose a model to describe the inflammatory process which occurs during ischemic stroke. First, an introduction to some basic concepts about the biological phenomenon is given. Then, a detailed derivation of the model and the numerical scheme used are presented. Finally, the studies of the model robustness and sensitivity are showed and some numerical results on the time and space evolution of the process are presented and discussed....
A Matrix Approach to the Energy-Norm Bisection in Wave Motion
A measure theoretic approach to higher codimension mean curvature flows