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We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We show short time existence and uniqueness of $\C^{1,1}$ solutions to the mean curvature flow with obstacles, when the obstacles are of class $\C^{1,1}$. If the initial interface is a periodic graph we show long time existence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Gwenael Mercier , Matteo Novaga

We establish the convergence of threshold dynamics-type approximation schemes to propagating fronts evolving according to an anisotropic mean curvature motion in the presence of a forcing term depending on both time and position, thus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Bohdan Bulanyi , Berardo Ruffini

Many physical situations are characterized by interfaces with a non trivial shape so that relevant geometric features, such as interfacial area, curvature or unit normal vector, can be used as main indicators of the topology of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Giuseppe Orlando , Paolo Francesco Barbante , Luca Bonaventura

The addition of suitable volume forces to the Navier-Stokes equation allows to simulate flows in the presence of a homogeneous shear. Because of the explicit form of the driving the flows are accessible to rigorous mathematical treatment…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-18 Bruno Eckhardt , Andreas Dietrich , Arne Jachens , Joerg Schumacher

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

In [21] the evolution of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normal speed equal to a power $k>1$ of the mean curvature is considered and the levelset solution $u$ of the flow is obtained as the $C^0$-limit of a sequence $u^{\epsilon}$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Heiko Kröner

A homogenization approach is proposed for the treatment of porous wall boundary conditions in the computation of compressible viscous flows. Like any other homogenization approach, it eliminates the need for pore-resolved fluid meshes and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-15 Daniel Z. Huang , Man Long Wong , Sanjiva K. Lele , Charbel Farhat

In this work, we propose a new evolving geometric flow (called translating mean curvature flow) for the translating solitons of hypersurfaces in $R^{n+1}$. We study the basic properties, such as positivity preserving property, of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Li Ma

Evolution of a universe with homogeneous extra dimensions is studied with the benefit of a well-chosen parameter space that provides a systematic, useful, and convenient way for analysis. In this model we find a natural evolution pattern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Je-An Gu , W-Y. P. Hwang , Jr-Wei Tsai

We define a new notion of translations in the hyperbolic plane and explicitly solve the equation of the curve shortening flow. Next, we consider the class of ancient convex solutions and solve the equation of the curve shortening flow when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Ivan Krznarić , Rafael López

Over the past few years, we developed a mathematically rigorous method to study the dynamical processes associated to nonlinear Forchheimer flows for slightly compressible fluids. We have proved the existence of a geometric transformation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Eugenio Aulisa , Akif Ibragimov , Magdalena Toda

We study front propagation problems for forced mean curvature flows and their phase field variants that take place in stratified media, i.e., heterogeneous media whose characteristics do not vary in one direction. We consider phase change…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-01 A. Cesaroni , C. B. Muratov , M. Novaga

The dynamics of planar crack fronts in heterogeneous media is studied using a recently proposed stochastic equation of motion that takes into account nonlinear effects. The analysis is carried for a moving front in the quasi-static regime…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Katzav , M. Adda--Bedia

Traditional models of electrokinetic transport in porous media are based on homogenized material properties, which neglect any macroscopic effects of microscopic fluctuations. This perspective is taken not only for convenience, but also…

Mathematical modeling of fluid flow in a porous medium is usually described by a continuity equation and a chosen constitutive law. The latter, depending on the problem at hand, may be a nonlinear relation between the fluid's pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Alessio Fumagalli , Francesco Saverio Patacchini

The paper addresses the numerical approximation of two variants of hyperbolic mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. For each evolution law we propose both a finite element method, as well as a finite difference scheme in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

Let $\gamma_0$ be a curve on a surface $\Sigma$ of genus $g$ and with $r$ boundary components and let $\pi_1(\Sigma)\curvearrowright X$ be a discrete and cocompact action on some metric space. We study the asymptotic behavior of the number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Viveka Erlandsson , Hugo Parlier , Juan Souto

Two dimensional flows on fixed smooth surfaces have been studied in the point of view of vorticity dynamics. Firstly, the related deformation theory including kinematics and kinetics is developed. Secondly, some primary relations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xi-Lin Xie

Geometric flows related to shape optimization problems of Bernoulli type are investigated. The evolution law is the sum of a curvature term and a nonlocal term of Hele-Shaw type. We introduce generalized set solutions, the definition of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-15 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Olivier Ley