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The partial differential equation (PDE) formulation in Chap. 1 and implementation in Chap. 2 for a fixed tumor outer boundary is extended in this chapter to a moving boundary by the use an algorithm based on an equation for the outer boundary velocity. Three cases for the outer boundary velocity are considered: (1) a fixed boundary (zero velocity) for comparison with the results discussed in Chap. 3, (2) a constant velocity which can be checked (the outer boundary moves linearly in time), and (3) the outer boundary velocity is proportional to the cancer density at the outer boundary. For the three cases, the plotted output for the outer boundary velocity and position are of particular interest.
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Schiesser, W.E. (2019). Moving Boundary PDE Model Implementation. In: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cancer Immunotherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19080-4_4
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