  Contact inhibition limits migration and proliferation of cells in cell
colonies. We consider a multiphase field model to investigate the growth
dynamics of a cell colony, composed of proliferating cells. The model takes
into account the mechanisms of contact inhibition of locomotion and
proliferation by local mechanical interactions. We compare non-migrating and
migrating cells, in order to provide a quantitative characterization of the
dynamics and analyse the velocity of the colony boundary for both cases.
Additionally, we measure single cell velocities, number of neighbour
distributions, as well as the influence of stress and age on positions of the
cells and with respect to each other. We further compare the findings with
experimental data for Madin-Darby canine kidney cells
