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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 3:

Parameters for the fluid phases of the 2D angiogenesis example

Quantity Symbol Value Unit
Density of the fluid phases [15] ρl, ρh, ρt 1000 kg/m3
HC-IF interfacial tension [15] σhl 72 mN/m
TC-HC interfacial tension [15] σth 36 mN/m
TC-IF interfacial tension [15] σtl 108 mN/m
Coefficient a in saturation-pressure relationship [15] a 590 Pa
Coefficient b in saturation-pressure relationship [15] b 1
Dynamic viscosity of IF [15] μl 0.01 Pa/s
Dynamic viscosity of HC and TC [15] μh, μt 20 Pa/s
Exponent in the relative permeability law for IF [15] Al 4
Exponent in the relative permeability law for HC and TC [15] Ah, At 2
Initial porosity in the domain [15] ε0 0.8
Growth coefficient of tumor cells [17] γgrowtht 4 · 10−2 kg/(m3s)