Research Article

A Novel Method for Simulating the Extracellular Matrix in Models of Tumour Growth

Table 2

Computation time in minutes for the common model ((2a), (2b), (2c), (2d)) and the proposed approach (without explicitly modeling MDE, ((1a), (1b), (1c)) at different configurations.

Initial ECM Capillaries Standard model New model

All sides 8532
Random Two sides 12548
One side13861

All sides 9228
Constant Two sides 13331
One sides 15124