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We consider two-dimensional periodic gravity water waves with constant nonzero vorticity $\gamma$, in infinite depth and with periodic boundary conditions. We prove that, if the characteristic wave number $\frac{\gamma^2}{g}$ is rational,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Beatrice Langella , Alberto Maspero , Federico Murgante , Shulamit Terracina

We study the convergences of three projected Sobolev gradient flows to the ground state of the Gross-Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem. They are constructed as the gradient flows of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional with respect to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Ziang Chen , Jianfeng Lu , Yulong Lu , Xiangxiong Zhang

Given a continuous vector field $\lambda(t, \cdot)$ of Sobolev class $H^{\frac 32}$ on the unit circle $S^1$, the flow maps $\eta=g(t, \cdot)$ of the differential equation $$ \cases \frac{d\eta}{dt}=\lambda(t, \eta)\\ \eta(0,\zeta)=\zeta…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Yuliang Shen , Shuan Tang

The solvability in Sobolev spaces $W^{1,2}_p$ is proved for nondivergence form second order parabolic equations for $p>2$ close to 2. The leading coefficients are assumed to be measurable in the time variable and two coordinates of space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 Hongjie Dong , N. V. Krylov

The biharmonic flow of hypersurfaces $M^n$ immersed in the Euclidean space $\mathbb {R}^{n+1}$ for $n\geq 2$ is given by a fourth order geometric evolution equation, which is similar to the Willmore flow. We apply the Michael-Simon-Sobolev…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Yu Fu , Min-Chun Hong , Gang Tian

We discuss in this paper phase-field approximations of the Willmore functional and the associated L2-flow. After recollecting known results on the approximation of the Willmore energy and its L1-relaxation, we derive the expression of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou , Edouard Oudet

Following on from our previous study of the geodesic flow on three dimensional ellipsoid with equal middle semi-axes, here we study the remaining cases: Ellipsoids with two sets of equal semi-axes with $SO(2) \times SO(2)$ symmetry,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Chris M. Davison , Holger R. Dullin

We study the gradient flow of the length functional on the space of planar immersed closed curves, where the gradient is taken with respect to a family of homogeneous Sobolev $H^1$-type Riemannian metrics depending on parameters $\lambda>0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Philip Schrader , Glen Wheeler , Valentina Wheeler

We consider classical curvature flows: 1-parameter families of convex embeddings of the 2-sphere into Euclidean 3-space which evolve by an arbitrary (non-homogeneous) function of the radii of curvature. The associated flow of the radii of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

We found a new formulation to the Euler-Lagrange equation of the Willmore functional for immersed surfaces in ${\R}^m$. This new formulation of Willmore equation appears to be of divergence form, moreover, the non-linearities are made of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Riviere Tristan

This paper contributes to the exploration of a recently introduced computational paradigm known as second-order flows, which are characterized by novel dissipative hyperbolic partial differential equations extending accelerated gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Haifan Chen , Guozhi Dong , José A. Iglesias , Wei Liu , Ziqing Xie

The free elastic flow is the $L^2$-gradient flow for Euler's elastic energy, or equivalently the Willmore flow with translation invariant initial data. In contrast to elastic flows under length penalisation or preservation, it is more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Tatsuya Miura , Glen Wheeler

We consider multi-gradient fluids endowed with a volumetric internal energy which is a function of mass density, volumetric entropy and their successive gradients. We obtained the thermodynamic forms of equation of motions and equation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Henri Gouin

In this paper, we consider the $L^2$-gradient flow for the modified $p$-elastic energy defined on planar closed curves. We formulate a notion of weak solution for the flow and prove the existence of global-in-time weak solutions with $p \ge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Shinya Okabe , Glen Wheeler

We study a flow of $G_2$ structures which induce the same Riemannian metric which is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. We prove Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor along the flow. We show that at a finite-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Shubham Dwivedi , Panagiotis Gianniotis , Spiro Karigiannis

Geometric gradient flows for elastic energies of Willmore type play an important role in mathematics and in many applications. The evolution of elastic curves has been studied in detail both for closed as well as for open curves. Although…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Harald Garcke , Julia Menzel , Alessandra Pluda

We develop the analysis of Lipschitz immersions of $n$-dimensional manifolds into $\mathbb{R}^d$ having their second fundamental forms bounded in the critical Sobolev space $W^{\frac{n}{2}-1,2}$ in dimension $n\geq 4$ even and any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Dorian Martino , Tristan Rivière

We introduce a parametric framework for the study of Willmore gradient flows which enables to consider a general class of weak, energy-level solutions and opens the possibility to study energy quantization and finite-time singularities. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Francesco Palmurella , Tristan Rivière

We define functionals generalising the Seiberg-Witten functional on closed $spin^c$ manifolds, involving higher order derivatives of the curvature form and spinor field. We then consider their associated gradient flows and, using a gauge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Hemanth Saratchandran

Consider the Poincar\'e-Sobolev inequality on the hyperbolic space: for every $n \geq 3$ and $1 < p \leq \frac{n+2}{n-2},$ there exists a best constant $S_{n,p, \lambda}(\mathbb{B}^{n})>0$ such that $$S_{n, p,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Mousomi Bhakta , Debdip Ganguly , Debabrata Karmakar , Saikat Mazumdar