A model describing the growth and the size distribution of multiple metastatic tumors

DOI10.3934/dcdsb.2009.12.731zbMath1195.35054OpenAlexW2038279589MaRDI QIDQ1045756

Anne Devys, Thierry Goudon, Pauline Lafitte

Publication date: 16 December 2009

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2009.12.731

zbMATH Keywords

relative entropyWENO schemeMcKendrick-von Foerster equationMalthusian rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L50) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65M99)

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