A modified phase field approximation for mean curvature flow with conservation of the volume
Numerical Analysis
2009-04-02 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the motion of a time dependent hypersurface that evolves by mean curvature flow with a a volume constraint. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the well known nonlocal Allen--Cahn equation. Here we propose a modified version of this equation, and we show that it has better volume preserving properties than the classical one, even in the presence of an additional forcing term.
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@article{arxiv.0904.0098,
title = {A modified phase field approximation for mean curvature flow with conservation of the volume},
author = {Elie Bretin and Morgan Brassel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0098},
year = {2009}
}
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34 pages, 19 figures