A hydrodynamic model of the Weyl-Dirac theory in the non-relativistic approach is established. Any microparticle is permanently interacting with the 'subquantum level' through the quantum potential, which depends only on the imaginary part of a complex speed. The complex speed fields indicate a possible connection between the Weyl-Dirac theory and Scale Relativity Theory. In such conjecture, some properties of the vacuum states result: the vacuum states behave as a superconducting state, they act as an energy accumulator etc.

We present a traveling-wave analysis of a reduced mathematical model describing the growth of a solid tumor in the presence of an immune system response in the framework of Scale Relativity theory. Attention is focused upon the attack of tumor cells by tumor-infiltrating cytotoxic lymphocytes (TICLs), in a small multicellular tumor, without necrosis and at some stage prior to (tumor-induced) angiogenesis. For a particular choice of parameters, the underlying system of partial differential equations is able to simulate the well-documented phenomenon of cancer dormancy and propagation of a perturbation in the tumor cell concentration by cnoidal modes, by depicting spatially heterogeneous tumor cell distributions that are characterized by a relatively small total number of tumor cells. This behavior is consistent with several immunomorphological investigations. Moreover, the alteration of certain parameters of the model is enough to induce soliton like modes and soliton packets into the system, which in turn result in tumor invasion in the form of a standard traveling wave. In the same framework of Scale Relativity theory, a very important feature of malignant tumors also results, that even in avascular stages they might propagate and invade healthy tissues, by means of a diffusion on a Newtonian fluid.

A connection between the Weyl-Dirac theory and scale relativity theory through the hydrodynamic models (relativistic and non-relativistic approaches) is established. In such conjecture, considering that the motions of the microparticles take place on continuous but non-differentiable curves i.e. on fractals, a Weyl-Dirac type equation was found. Some correspondences with known hydrodynamic models, particularly Bia lynicki-Birula's approach, are analyzed. All these results reflect the fractal structure of the space-time (a concept in agreement with the new ideas on the space-time).

Assimilating a complex fluid with a fractal object, non-differentiable behaviors in its dynamics are analyzed. Complex fluid dynamics in the form of hydrodynamic-type fractal regimes imply “holographic implementations” through velocity fields at non-differentiable scale resolution, via fractal solitons, fractal solitons–fractal kinks, and fractal minimal vortices. Complex fluid dynamics in the form of Schrödinger type fractal regimes imply “holographic implementations”, through the formalism of Airy functions of fractal type. Then, the in-phase coherence of the dynamics of the complex fluid structural units induces various operational procedures in the description of such dynamics: special cubics with SL(2R)-type group invariance, special differential geometry of Riemann type associated to such cubics, special apolar transport of cubics, special harmonic mapping principle, etc. In such a manner, a possible scenario toward chaos (a period-doubling scenario), without concluding in chaos (nonmanifest chaos), can be mimed.

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