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Exact Solutions to a Mathematical Model Representing Avascular Tumor
Growth Via Exponential Function Method
Afaf N. Yousif1, Ahmed Farooq Qasim2
1
Department of mathematics, College of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of
Mosul, Mosul, Iraq.
2
Department of mathematics, College of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of
Mosul, Mosul, Iraq, ahmednumerical@uomosul.edu.iq
Abstract
In this paper, conducted a study on avascular tumor growth of partial differential system. As has
been suggested a modification of this mathematical model was proposed, then we found the exact
solutions for this model based on the new exponential-function method Without the need to
convert the system from partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations. The
solution of the system provides us with the possibility to study the influence of parameters on the
spread of disease and how to control and then eliminate it. The effect of parameters on the spread
and growth of disease was studied, after obtaining a general formula for exact solutions for
nonlinear system, and then studying the effect of increasing or decreasing these parameters and
the effect of their absence on the disease growth.
Keywords: Exact solutions, Avascular tumor growth, Exponential-function method.
1. Introduction
Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool for testing hypotheses, confirming experiments, and
simulating the dynamics of complex systems as well as helping to understand the mechanistic
underpinnings of complex systems in a relatively quick time without the huge costs of laboratory
experiments and biological changes, particularly in oncology. It should also be noted that the
tumor is a mass of tissue formed by the division of cells at an accelerated rate [1,2,3,4,5]. There
are several mathematical models that describe natural tumor growth, scientist stein A. described
in [6] a linear model describing the natural tumor growth of renal cell carcinoma based on certain
measurements. In [7] Claret L. presented a new exponential model that assumed that the tumor
growth rate is proportional to the tumor burden as it was adopted in the process of tumor
suppression. Also Gardner S. N. in [8] relied on partial differential equations to describe the
growth of brain tumors. Among the wide applications in this field is the proliferation-invasion
model, which assumes that net proliferation and invasion contributes to tumor growth. There are
many methods that find us exact traveling wave solutions, including the tanh method, the tan-
expansion method, the exponential-function method and the πΊβ²
/πΊ -expansion method. Malik A.
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et al found in [9] exact traveling wave solutions Using the (
πΊβ²
πΊ
)-expansion method of the
Bogoyavlenskii equation, In [10] Raslan K. R. et al., a traveling wave solution was created for
various types of nonlinear partial differential equations using the modified extended tanh method,
reduced to ordinary differential. dish Ic U. in [11] used tan expansion method On the equation
(2 + 1) -dimensional burgers equation to find traveling wave solutions. In [12] Javeed S. et. al.
Use the exponential function method to find the exact solutions of burgerβs equation, zakharov-
kuznetsov and kortewegede vries Equation. It was found that this method is useful and effective
in solving nonlinear conformable (PDEs) and simpler and more efficient than other methods. The
Exp-function method has been successfully applied to many kinds of NPDEs, such as, Kawahara
equation [13], Boussinesq equations [14], Double Sine-Gordon equation [15], Fisher equation
[16], and the other important nonlinear partial differential equations [17]. In this paper we apply
the Exp-function method to obtain exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations,
namely, of avascular tumor growth.
2. Mathematical Model
we will express a multicellular model of avascular tumor growth by a nonlinear system of
partial differential equations as follows: [18]
ππ
ππ‘
=
π
ππ₯
[
π
π+π+π
π
ππ₯
(π + π + π )] + π(π)π(1 β (π + π + π + π)) β π(π)π (1)
ππ
ππ‘
=
π
ππ₯
[
π
π+π+π
π
ππ₯
(π + π + π )] + π(π)π β β(π)π (2)
ππ
ππ‘
=
π
ππ₯
[
π
π+π+π
π
ππ₯
(π + π + π )] + π(π)π (Π³ β (π + π + π + π)) (3)
ππ
ππ‘
= β(π)π (4)
Where
π(π₯, π‘) =
π0πΎ
π+πΎ
(1 β πΌ(π + π + π + π)) (5)
Where the model consists of four equations with four variables as π(π₯, π‘) represents proliferating
(living) cells, π(π₯, π‘) quiescent cells (live but not proliferating), π (π₯, π‘) surrounding cells, and π
necrotic cells. According to the model presented by Sherratt & Chaplain [19] , the mitosis rate
π(π) of proliferating cells is directly proportional to the concentration of nutrients π(π₯, π‘), and is
limited by the total number of cells in the body and cells that do not receive sufficient nutrients
turn in to quiescent cells. Many inactive cells undergo necrosis when kept away from nutrients at
a rate of π(π) towards the depth of the tumor and tumor growth and development is restricted by
adjacent epithelial cells depend for mitosis on the concentration of nutrients π(π₯, π‘) as well as
β(π) represents the rate of rotating quiescent cells to necrosis and the proliferating cells become
quiescent at a rate of π(π), π0 is a nutrient deliberation in lack of a tumor cell population. Also πΌ,
πΎ, Π³ are dimensionless parameters the π₯ denotes the coordinates of place and π‘ of time as well as
the πΌ β [0,1]. With the following initial and boundary conditions [18]:
Initial conditions:
π(π₯, 0) = π0(π₯) , π(π₯, 0) = π0(π₯) , π (π₯, π‘) = π 0(π₯) , π(π₯, 0) = π0(π₯).
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Boundary conditions:
ππ
ππ₯
= 0,
ππ
ππ₯
= 0, and
ππ
ππ₯
= 0 at π₯ = 0.
Where π(π) , β(π) and π(π) are given functions and Π³, πΎ and are parameter values also given
[18].
Fig.1: the interaction between the proliferating, quiescent, surrounding and necrotic cell
densities.
3. Exponential-function method
Suppose the general form of a nonlinear partial differential equation with two independent
variables π₯ and π‘ has the following form [20]:
π(π’, π’π‘, π’π₯, π’π‘π‘, π’π₯π‘, π’π₯π₯, β¦ ) = 0. (6)
Where π’ = π’(π₯, π‘), unknown function and π is a polynomial in π’(π₯, π‘). and consider the
traveling wave transformation:
π’(π₯, π‘) = π’(π) , π = π₯ + π π‘. (7)
Where π is the combination of π₯ and π‘, and π is the wave speed by using equation (7), the
equation (6) becomes an ordinary differential equation:
π(π’, π π’β²
, π’β²
, π 2
π’β³
, π π’β³
, π’β³
, β¦ ) = 0 (8)
the wave solution to equation (8) is as follows:
π’(π) =
β ππexp (ππ)
π
π=βπ
β ππexp (ππ)
π
π=βπ
=
πβπ exp(βππ)+β―+ππexp (ππ)
πβπ exp(βππ)+β―+ππexp (ππ)
. (9)
Where ππ and ππ are unknown constants and π, π, π and q are positive integers. Equation (9) can
be reformulated as:
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π’(π) =
ππ exp(ππ)+β―+πβπexp (βππ)
ππ exp(ππ)+β―+πβπexp (βππ)
, (10)
by balance the linear and nonlinear higher order terms in equation (8) to get the values of π and
π, and balance the linear and nonlinear lowest order terms in equation (8) in order to get the
values of π and π , we replace equation (10) with equation (8) after substituting the values of π,
π, π and π, and simplifying to get:
β ππ exp(Β±ππ) = 0
π , π = 0,1,2, β¦ (11)
solving the algebraic equations (11) after setting each coefficient of the ππ = 0, the known ππ
and ππ substituted in the equation(10) to obtain on solution for the equation (6).
4. Modification method
The system (1-4) is difficult to solve analytically because it contains nonlinear fractions, so
we will suggest a simpler system based on some biological constraints, the aim of which is to
treat and simplify the nonlinear fractions [21].
We will replace
π
π+π+π
,
π
π+π+π
and
π
π+π+π
with π1, π2 and π3 respectively, so that we get:
ππ
ππ‘
=
π
ππ₯
[π1
π
ππ₯
(π + π + π )] + π(π)π(1 β (π + π + π + π)) β π(π)π (12)
ππ
ππ‘
=
π
ππ₯
[π2
π
ππ₯
(π + π + π )] + π(π)π β β(π)π (13)
ππ
ππ‘
=
π
ππ₯
[π3
π
ππ₯
(π + π + π )] + π(π)π (Π³ β (π + π + π + π)) (14)
ππ
ππ‘
= β(π)π (15)
π(π₯, π‘) =
π0πΎ
π+πΎ
(1 β πΌ(π + π + π + π)) (16)
We will find a specific exact solution that fulfills the following hypotheses:
π = π1(π + π + π ), π = π2(π + π + π ), π = π3(π + π + π ), π = π4π. (17)
We replace the previous (17) assumptions with the system (12-16):
π1
π
ππ‘
(π + π + π ) =
π
ππ₯
[π1
π
ππ₯
(
π
π1
)] + π(π)π1(π + π + π )(1 β ((π1 + π2 + π3)(π + π + π ) +
π4π)) β π(π)π1(π + π + π ) (18)
π2
π
ππ‘
(π + π + π ) =
π
ππ₯
[π2
π
ππ₯
(
π
π2
)] + π(π)π1(π + π + π ) β β(π)π2(π + π + π ) (19)
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To determine values π, π π, and π, we derivative the equation (4) twice for π:
πΜ
Μ(π) =
π1 ππ₯π((3π+π)π)+β―
π2 ππ₯π(4 π π)+β―
(31)
and
π2(π) =
π3 ππ₯π((4 π) π)+β―
π4 ππ₯π(4 π π)+β―
(32)
Where ππ are constants. The exp function method is assumes the equality of the denominator in
the two equations. In addition, the method depends on equal to the least term in the numerator for
the equation (31) With the least term of the numerator in the equation (32) and the largest term of
the numerator in the equation (31) With the largest term to numerator in the equation (32), then
3π + π = 4 π and 3π + π = 4 π that mean π = π and π = π. As a special case, supposed for
equation (4):
ππ = 0 β±―m = βp β¦ β¦ q/{0}
that mean π0 = 1, and ππ = 0 β±―n = βc β¦ β¦ d/{0} , that mean π0 = π πππ π1 = π , then
the general solution as follows:
π = πΌπππ
+ ππ, π = πΌπππ
+ ππ, π = πΌπ ππ
+ ππ , π = πΌπππ
+ ππ. (33)
Where πΌπ , πΌπ , πΌπ , πΌπ , ππ , ππ , ππ and ππ are a constants or functions in terms of π₯ and π‘.
by replace the previous assumptions (33) with equations (27-30) with some simplifications to
equations:
π(π)π1ππ + π(π)π1ππ + π(π)π1
2
ππ
2
+ π(π)π1
2
ππ
2
β π(π)π1ππ + π(π)π1ππ β π(π)π1ππ β
π(π)π1ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π2ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π2ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π2πΌπ +
2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π3ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π3πΌπ + 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π3ππ +
π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π4πΌπ + π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π4ππ + 2π(π)π1πππ2πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
+
2π(π)π1πππ3πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
+ π(π)π1πππ4πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
+ 2π(π)π1πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
π2ππ +
2π(π)π1πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
π3ππ + π(π)π1πΌπ π2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π4πΌπ + π(π)π1πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
π4ππ +
π(π)π1ππ π4πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
+ 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π2ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π2πΌπ +
2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π2ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π2πΌπ + 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π2ππ +
2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π3ππ + 2π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π3πΌπ + 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π3ππ +
2π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π3πΌπ + 2π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π3ππ + π(π)π1πΌππ2(ππ₯+ππ‘)
π4πΌπ +
π(π)π1πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
π4ππ + 2π(π)π1πππ2πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
+ 2π(π)π1πππ2πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
+
2π(π)π1πππ3πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
+ 2π(π)π1πππ3πΌπ πππ₯+ππ‘
+ π(π)π1πππ4πΌππππ₯+ππ‘
+ 2π(π)π1πππ3ππ +
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Fig (3): Shows the π(π) with the proliferating (P), and quiescent (q) cells When πΌ = 0.4 , Π³ = 2,
πΎ = 10 ,π0 = 1 and π‘ = 1.
Fig (4): Shows the π(π) with the proliferating (p) , and surrounding (s) cells When πΌ = 0.4 ,
Π³ = 2, πΎ = 10 , π0 = 1 and π‘ = 1.
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Fig (5): Shows the β(π) with the quiescent (q) and necrotic (n) cells When πΌ = 0.4 , Π³ = 2, πΎ = 10 ,
π0 = 1 and π‘ = 1.
Consider from figures (3-5), the effect of π(π),β(π) and π(π), on the solutions for the system
(1)-(5), where β(π) represent the rate of rotating quiescent cells to necrosis, π(π) is the mitosis
amount function of the flourishing cells and π(π) is the rate at which proliferating cells become
quiescent with the following parameter values, Π³ = 0 , πΎ = 10 , π0 = 1 and πΌ = 0.4, We notice
from Figure (3) that π (proliferating cells) increases steadily when π(π) (the rate at which
proliferating cells become quiescent) approaches zero (decay) and π (quiescent cells) decays for
all values of π(π) in the period π₯. from Figure (4), show that π (proliferating cells) and π
(surrounding cells) increases when the values of π₯ and π(π) (is the mitosis amount function of
the flourishing cells) increase. Figure (5), show that π (quiescent cells) increases as β(π)
(represent the rate of rotating quiescent cells to necrosis) approaches zero (decay) π (necrotic
cells) approaches zero (decay) in all values of π₯ and β(π) (represent the rate of rotating quiescent
cells to necrosis).
5. Conclusion
In this paper, a modification of the avascular tumor growth model represented by the system of
nonlinear PDEs was proposed by simplifying the nonlinear fractions, and the exact solution of
the modified system was found based on the exponential-function method. The exact solution
enables us to study the effect of parameters, (π) , β(π) and π(π) on the spread of the disease and
how to control it. Every one of the calculations was done with the guide of Maple 18
programming.
Acknowledgments
The research is supported by College of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, University of
Mosul, Republic of Iraq.
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