On the Inviscid Limit Connecting Brinkman’s and Darcy’s Models of Tissue Growth with Nonlinear Pressure

Abstract Several recent papers have addressed the modelling of tissue growth by multi-phase models where the velocity is related to the pressure by one of the physical laws (Stokes’, Brinkman’s or Darcy’s). While each of these models has been extensively studied, not so much is known about the connection between them. In the recent paper (David et al. in SIAM J. Math. Anal. 56(2):2090–2114, 2024), assuming the linear form of the pressure, the Authors connected two multi-phase models by an inviscid limit: the viscoelastic one (of Brinkman’s type) and the inviscid one (of Darcy’s type). Here, we prove that the same is true for a nonlinear, power-law pressure. The new ingredient is that we use the relation between the pressure p and the Brinkman potential W to deduce compactness in space of p from the compactness in space of W .