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Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Fanqi Zeng , Qun He , Bin Chen

J.J.L. Vel$\acute{a}$zquez in 1994 used the degree theory to show that there is a perturbation of Simons' cone, starting from which the mean curvature flow develops a type $\mathrm{II}$ singularity at the origin. He also showed that under a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Siao-Hao Guo , Natasa Sesum

In this paper, we construct global distributional solutions to the volume-preserving mean-curvature flow using a variant of the time-discrete gradient flow approach proposed independently by Almgren, Taylor and Wang (SIAM J. Control Optim.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Luca Mugnai , Christian Seis , Emanuele Spadaro

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

We study the evolution of hypersurfaces in spacetime initial data sets by their null mean curvature. A theory of weak solutions is developed using the level-set approach. Starting from an arbitrary mean convex, outer untapped hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Theodora Bourni , Kristen Moore

We introduce a new notion of viscosity solutions for a class of very singular nonlinear parabolic problems of non-divergence form in a periodic domain of arbitrary dimension, whose diffusion on flat parts with zero slope is so strong that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Mi-Ho Giga , Yoshikazu Giga , Norbert Pozar

In this paper we study the geometry of first time singularities of the mean curvature flow. By the curvature pinching estimate of Huisken and Sinestrari, we prove that a mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space $\R^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-20 Weimin Sheng , Xu-Jia Wang

It is well-known that the mean curvature flow is a formal gradient flow of the perimeter functional. However, by the work of Michor and Mumford [7,8], the formal Riemannian structure that is compatible with the gradient flow structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Zhonggan Huang

We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $R^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Wolfgang Maurer

We study a notion of relative entropy motivated by self-expanders of mean curvature flow. In particular, we obtain the existence of this quantity for arbitrary hypersurfaces trapped between two disjoint self-expanders asymptotic to the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Jacob Bernstein , Lu Wang

We discuss recent results on minimal surfaces and mean curvature flow, focusing on the classification and structure of embedded minimal surfaces and the stable singularities of mean curvature flow. This article is dedicated to Rick Schoen.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We consider a two-phase flow of two incompressible, viscous and immiscible fluids which are separated by a sharp interface in the case of a simple phase transition. In this model the interface is no longer material and its evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

We consider a general curvature equation $F(\kappa)=G(X,\nu(X))$, where $\kappa$ is the principal curvature of the hypersurface $M$ with position vector $X$. It includes the classical prescribed curvature measures problem and area measures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Shanwei Ding , Guanghan Li

This paper is concerned with the mean curvature flow, which describes the dynamics of a hypersurface whose normal velocity is determined by local mean curvature. We present a Cartesian grid-based method for solving mean curvature flows in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Han Zhou , Shuwang Li , Wenjun Ying

In this paper we prove that in $\mathbb R^3$ the minimizing movement solutions for mean curvature motion of droplets, obtained in [Bellettini, Kholmatov: J. Math. Pure Appl. (2018)], coincide with the smooth mean curvature flow of droplets…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Shokhrukh Kholmatov

We consider a multiphase surface $\mathcal{C}_0$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ consisting of a finite number of surfaces passing through the origin , where all 1-dimensional junctions are regular triple junctions in which three planes meet at the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Wei-Hung Liao

We review some recent results on the mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds from the perspective of geometric partial differential equations. These include global existence and convergence results, characterizations of first-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Mu-Tao Wang

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for crystalline mean curvature flows with forcing and arbitrary (convex) mobilities, is proven. This is achieved by introducing a new notion of solution to the corresponding level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

We consider the evolution of a $n$-dimensional convex hypersurface in the euclidean space under mean curvature flow with densities $e^{\varepsilon \frac12 n\mu^2 |x|^2}$, $\varepsilon =\pm 1$, and completely determine it depending on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-23 Alexander A. Borisenko , Vicente Miquel

Phase-field models such as the Allen-Cahn equation may give rise to the formation and evolution of geometric shapes, a phenomenon that may be analyzed rigorously in suitable scaling regimes. In its sharp-interface limit, the vectorial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Julian Fischer , Alice Marveggio