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Motion by (weighted) mean curvature is a geometric evolution law for surfaces, representing steepest descent with respect to (an)isotropic surface energy. It has been proposed that this motion could be computed by solving the analogous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Pedro M. Girão , Robert V. Kohn

We show that the mean curvature flow for a closed and rotationally symmetric surface can be formulated as an evolution problem consisting of an evolution equation for the square of the function whose graph is rotated and two ODEs describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Harald Garcke , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We study evolution of a closed embedded plane curve with the normal velocity depending on the curvature, the orientation and the position of the curve. We propose a new method of tangential redistribution of points by curvature adjusted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Daniel Sevcovic , Shigetoshi Yazaki

In this paper, we study a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The numerical method is built on the stabilized trace finite element method (TraceFEM) for the spatial discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

Bulk-surface systems on evolving domains are studied. Such problems appear typically from modelling receptor-ligand dynamics in biological cells. Our first main result is the global existence and boundedness of solutions in all dimensions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Diogo Caetano , Charles M. Elliott , Bao Quoc Tang

A common issue in simulating geometric evolution of surfaces is unexpected clustering of points that may cause numerical instability. We propose a novel artificial tangential velocity method for this matter. The artificial tangential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Jiangong Pan , Guozhi Dong , Hailong Guo , Zuoqiang Shi

A limited mobility nonequilibrium solid-on-solid dynamical model for kinetic surface growth is introduced as a simple description for the morphological evolution of a growing interface under random vapor deposition and surface diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , P. Punyindu

Short time existence for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization is proved in the context of epitaxially strained three-dimensional films. This is achieved by implementing a minimizing movement scheme, which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Irene Fonseca , Nicola Fusco , Giovanni Leoni , Massimiliano Morini

In this paper, we study numerical methods for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The evolving hypersurface in $\Bbb{R}^d$ defines a $d$-dimensional space-time manifold in the space-time continuum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Xianmin Xu

We study a higher-order surface finite element (SFEM) penalty-based discretization of the tangential surface Stokes problem. Several discrete formulations are investigated which are equivalent in the continuous setting. The impact of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius

In this paper we analyze a space-time unfitted finite element method for the discretization of scalar surface partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. For higher order approximations of the evolving surface we use the technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Arnold Reusken , Hauke Sass

Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

We consider an arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian evolving surface finite element method for the numerical approximation of advection and diffusion of a conserved scalar quantity on a moving surface. We describe the method, prove optimal order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Charles M. Elliott , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

We establish convergence results for a spatial semidiscretization of Mean Curvature Flow (MCF) for surfaces with fixed boundaries. Our analysis is based on Huisken's evolution equations for the mean curvature and the normal vector, enabling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Bárbara Solange Ivaniszyn , Pedro Morin , M. Sebastián Pauletti

We prove a short time existence result for a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss a mean curvature flow scaled with a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the convection problem on a surface based on continuous piecewise linear approximation and gradient jump stabilization terms. The discrete piecewise linear surface cuts through a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

In this article we investigate a system of geometric evolution equations describing a curvature driven motion of a family of 3D curves in the normal and binormal directions. Evolving curves may be subject of mutual interactions having both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Michal Benes , Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the stationary convection diffusion problem on a surface embedded in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. The cut finite element method is based on using an embedding of the surface into a three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing , Sara Zahedi

We consider compressible fluid flow on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ both an energetic variational approach and the first law of thermodynamics to make a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Hajime Koba

We study two fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface, given a smooth potential with polynomial growth. In particular we establish optimal order error bounds for a (fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales