Asymptotic Behavior of a Tumor Angiogenesis Model with Haptotaxis

Abstract

This paper considers the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the angiogenesis system p t = Δ p − ρ ∇ · ( p ∇ w ) + λ p ( 1 − p ) , w t = − γ p w β in a bounded smooth domain Ω ⊂ R N ( N = 1 , 2 ) , where ρ , λ , γ > 0 and β ≥ 1 . More precisely, it is shown that the corresponding solution ( p , w ) converges to ( 1 , 0 ) with an explicit exponential rate if β = 1 , and polynomial rate if β > 1 as t → ∞ , respectively, in L ∞ -norm.

Keywords

• angiogenesis
• haptotaxis
• asymptotic behavior