What Are the Latest Trends and Challenges in Nonlinear PDEs for Cancer Research?

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The discussion revolves around the latest trends and challenges in the research of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly in the context of cancer research. Participants explore the significance of these equations in modeling phenomena related to cancer, such as blood flow and tumor interactions, and inquire about the nature of current research problems in this area.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant questions the main trends in nonlinear differential equations research, specifically in relation to cancer research, and whether the focus is on finding particular solutions or on the existence and regularity of solutions.
  • Another participant highlights the Navier-Stokes PDE as a major problem in fluid mechanics, noting its relevance to cancer modeling through blood flow and tumor interactions.
  • There is mention of the Navier-Stokes problem being a Millennium problem, which has significant implications and funding associated with its solution.
  • A participant expresses interest in finding "simpler" problems related to Navier-Stokes that are currently being studied, indicating a desire for more accessible research topics.
  • One participant shares a link to a PDF discussing open problems related to Navier-Stokes, suggesting ongoing research in this area.
  • Another participant raises the topic of nonlinearity in PDEs, indicating that there may be ongoing research in that direction as well.

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Participants do not reach a consensus on the specific trends or challenges in nonlinear PDEs for cancer research, and multiple competing views and questions remain unresolved.

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Limitations include the lack of clarity on specific nonlinear PDEs currently being researched in cancer applications, as well as the dependence on definitions of terms like "simpler problems" and "nonlinearity."

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Hi everyone. For people who already saw me in this forum, I know I may seem boring with all these questions about PDE, but I promise this will be the last :D
Anyway, as the title says, which are the main trends of differential equations research, especially nonlinear differential equations(which are widely used in cancer research, just to mention an example)?
Secondly, are those problems most related with finding a particular solution for a differential equation, or are they concerned with the existence and regularity of solutions in a given domain?
 
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The major one is solving the Navier-Stokes PDE used in fluid mechanics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_equations

The Navier-Stokes problem is also a Millenium problem so there's big money behind the solution that you can give away to charity or just refuse like Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

and there's these problems from the unsolved list on wikipedia:

Partial differential equations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics
 
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jedishrfu said:
The major one is solving the Navier-Stokes PDE used in fluid mechanics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_equations

The Navier-Stokes problem is also a Millenium problem so there's big money behind the solution that you can give away to charity or just refuse like Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

and there's these problems from the unsolved list on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics
I found Navier Stokes' equations interesting, mainly for the fact that, as far as I know, they've many implications in cancer modelling (Exchange between blood flow and tumor, and interactions between cancer and therapy). The problem is that I only managed to find millenium problems, which I couldn't be able to answer, neither now nor in the future. Are there any "simpler" problems related to Navier Stokes, and which are studied nowadays?
P.S. Yes, I know about Perelman :) He lives with his mother now, or something like that :D
 
anyone else?
 
Thanks a lot!
And what about nonlinearity, instead? I guess there's some research going in that direction as well...
 

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