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Modeling and Imaging 3-Dimensional Collective Cell Invasion
Published on: December 7, 2011
Integrating stochastic chemotaxis-haptotaxis mechanisms in cancer invasion: A multiscale derivation and computational
Abdelghafour Atlas1, Mostafa Bendahmane2, Fahd Karami3
1Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées de Marrakech, Université Cadi Ayyad, B.P. 575 Marrakech, Maroc.
Abstract:
This paper deals with the multiscale derivation of a nonlinear stochastic chemotaxis-haptotaxis system of cancerous tissue invasion from a new stochastic kinetic theory model based on the micro-macro decomposition technique. We show that this approach technically can lead to some systems known in the literature, such as the filling volume effect, and a new system by taking the stochasticity effect and nonlocal diffusion into account. We develop an asymptotic-preserving numerical scheme to solve the obtained equivalent micro-macro formulation numerically. The objective is to provide a uniformly stable scheme regarding the small parameters and consistency with the diffusion limit. Various numerical examples validate the proposed approach. Finally, we provide numerical simulations in the two-dimensional setting obtained by the macroscopic stochastic model.
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