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Existence of flat flows for volume-preserving mean curvature flow with contact angle

Analysis of PDEs 2025-09-25 v1

Abstract

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we establish the local-in-time equi-boundedness of approximate solutions and a uniform L2L^2-estimate of multipliers. The difficulty is handled by conducting blowup analysis at a point in contact to a spherical cap with sharp angle.

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@article{arxiv.2509.19470,
  title  = {Existence of flat flows for volume-preserving mean curvature flow with contact angle},
  author = {Jiwoong Jang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.19470},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages, 2 figures