Table 1.

Parameters

Parameter	Symbol	Value	Unit
Density of the three fluid phases (α = h, t and l)	ρα	1000	kg/m3
Dynamic viscosity of IF (Sciumè et al. 2014b)	μl	1·10−2	Pa·sec
Dynamic viscosity of TC (Sciumè et al. 2014b)	μt	20	Pa·sec
Dynamic viscosity of HC (Sciumè et al. 2014b)	μh	20	Pa·sec
Critical mass fraction of oxygen	${\omega }_{crit}^{\overline{nl}}$	2.0·10−6	—
Growth coefficient of tumor cells (Sciumè et al. 2013)(Sciumè et al. 2014a)	${\gamma }_{growth}^t$	4·10−2	kg/(m3·s)
Necrosis coefficient (Sciumè et al. 2013)(Sciumè et al. 2014a)	${\gamma }_{necrosis}^t$	1·10−2	kg/(m3·s)
Consumption related to growth in eqn (Sciumè et al. 2013)(Sciumè et al. 2014a)	${\gamma }_{growth}^{\overline{nl}}$	2·10−4	kg/(m3·s)
Consumption related to metabolism in eqn (Sciumè et al. 2013)(Sciumè et al. 2014a)	${\gamma }_0^{\overline{nl}}$	3·10−4	kg/(m3·s)
HC-IF interfacial tension (Sciumè et al. 2014b)	σhl	72	mN/m
TC-HC interfacial tension (Sciumè et al. 2014b)	σth	36	mN/m
TC-IF interfacial tension (Sciumè et al. 2014b)	σtl	108	mN/m