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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng. 2018 Jun 22;340:657–683. doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2018.06.009

Table 1:

Mass transfer terms for vascular tumor growth

Entity Symbol Term
Extracellular matrix κJcsMκs = 0
Healthy cells κJchMκh = 0
Tumor cells κJclMκt = Mltgrowth
Interstitial fluid κJclMκl = Mltgrowth+MvlleakMllydrainage
Necrotic tumor cells κJctMNκNt+εtrNtωNt¯κJctMκt = εtrNtωNt¯Mltgrowth
Oxygen κJclMnκnl+εlrnlωnl¯κJclMκl = Mnlt+Mtcnvnlωnl¯(MvlleakMltgrowth)
Tumor angiogenic factors κJclMTAFκTAFl+εlrTAFlωTAFl¯κJclMκl = MTAFtTAFlωTAFl¯(MvlleakMltgrowth)