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International Journal of Differential Equations
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 175434, 25 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/175434
Research Article

The Avascular Tumour Growth in the Presence of Inhomogeneous Physical Parameters Imposed from a Finite Spherical Nutritive Environment

Foteini Kariotou1 and Panayiotis Vafeas2

1School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, 262 22 Patras, Greece
2Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece

Received 20 April 2012; Accepted 22 July 2012

Academic Editor: Shaher Momani

Copyright © 2012 Foteini Kariotou and Panayiotis Vafeas. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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