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We study the obstacle problem associated to mean curvature flow. We add to the geometric vanishing-viscosity approximation of Evans and Spruck a singular perturbation that penalizes the violation of the constraint, and pass to the limit.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Tim Laux , Keisuke Takasao

We introduce a new notion of viscosity solutions for the level set formulation of the motion by crystalline mean curvature in three dimensions. The solutions satisfy the comparison principle, stability with respect to an approximation by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Yoshikazu Giga , Norbert Požár

We consider the evolution of fronts by mean curvature in the presence of obstacles. We construct a weak solution to the flow by means of a variational method, corresponding to an implicit time-discretization scheme. Assuming the regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Luís Almeida , Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

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

In this paper we study the generalized mean curvature flow of sets in the sub-Riemannian geometry of Carnot groups. We extend to our context the level sets method and the weak (viscosity) solutions introduced in the Euclidean setting by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-08-27 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti

We show that a generic levelset of the viscosity solution to mean curvature flow is a distributional solution in the framework of sets of finite perimeter by Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker, which in addition saturates the optimal energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Anton Ullrich , Tim Laux

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux

We provide a connection between weak solution concepts of mean curvature flow. On the one side we have the viscosity solution which is based on the comparison principle. On the other, variational solutions, which are combined Brakke flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Tim Laux , Anton Ullrich

We consider the problem of evolving hypersurfaces by mean curvature flow in the presence of obstacles, that is domains which the flow is not allowed to enter. In this paper, we treat the case of complete graphs and explain how the approach…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Melanie Rupflin , Oliver C. Schnürer

We propose a level-set method for a mean curvature flow whose boundary is prescribed by interpreting the boundary as an obstacle. Since the corresponding obstacle problem is globally solvable, our method gives a global-in-time level-set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Xingzhi Bian , Yoshikazu Giga , Hiroyoshi Mitake

A general purely crystalline mean curvature flow equation with a nonuniform driving force term is considered. The unique existence of a level set flow is established when the driving force term is continuous and spatially Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Yoshikazu Giga , Norbert Pozar

We consider the obstacle problem of the weak solution for the mean curvature flow, in the sense of Brakke's mean curvature flow. We prove the global existence of the weak solution with obstacles which have $C^{1,1}$ boundaries, in two and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Keisuke Takasao

We investigate the relation between the level set approach and the varifold approach for the mean curvature flow with Neumann boundary conditions. With an appropriate initial data, we prove that the almost all level sets of the unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Satoru Aimi

We study the horizontal mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group by using the level-set method. We prove the uniqueness, existence and stability of axisymmetric viscosity solutions of the level-set equation. An explicit solution is given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Fausto Ferrari , Qing Liu , Juan J. Manfredi

In this paper, we study an obstacle problem associated with the mean curvature flow with constant driving force. Our first main result concerns interior and boundary regularity of the solution. We then study in details the large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yoshikazu Giga , Hung V. Tran , Longjie Zhang

This paper considers and proposes some algorithms to compute the mean curvature flow under topological changes. Instead of solving the fully nonlinear partial differential equations based on the level set approach, we propose some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Arthur Bousquet , Yukun Li , Guanqian Wang

We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to anisotropic and crystalline mean curvature flows, obtained as limit of the viscosity solutions to flows with smooth anisotropies.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

We develop a new boundary condition for the weak inverse mean curvature flow, which gives canonical and non-trivial solutions in bounded domains. Roughly speaking, the boundary of the domain serves as an outer obstacle, and the evolving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Kai Xu

This is an expository article describing the conformalized mean curvature flow, originally introduced by Kazhdan, Solomon, and Ben-Chen. We are interested in applying mean curvature flow to surface parametrizations. We discuss our own…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ka Wai Wong

In [5], S\'aez and Schn\"urer studied the graphical mean curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces defined on subsets of Euclidean space. They obtained long time existence. Moreover, they provided a new interpretation of weak mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Ling Xiao
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