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In this paper, we study the deformation of the 2 dimensional convex surfaces in $\R^{3}$ whose speed at a point on the surface is proportional to $\alpha$-power of positive part of Gauss Curvature. First, for 1/2<\alpha\leq 1$, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Lami Kim , Ki-ahm Lee , Eunjai Rhee

We study the regularity of the $p$-Gauss curvature flow with flat side. In our previous paper(arxiv:2403.12292), we obtained the regularity of the interface, namely the boundary of the flat part. In this paper, we study the regularity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Genggeng Huang , Xu-Jia Wang , Yang Zhou

We study the evolution of a weakly convex surface $\Sigma_0$ in $\R^3$ with flat sides by the Harmonic Mean Curvature flow. We establish the short time existence as well as the optimal regularity of the surface and we show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-05 M. Cristina Caputo , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normal velocity given by a positive power of the mean curvature. The hypersurfaces under consideration are assumed to be strictly mean convex (positive mean curvature),…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Wolfgang Maurer

We study contracting curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces with positive sectional curvature in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. The speed is assumed to be homogeneous of degree one in the principal curvatures and to satisfy certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Tianci Luo , Yong Wei , Rong Zhou

This paper concerns the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface in ${\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$, in direction of its inner unit normal vector, where the speed is given by a smooth function depending only on the mean curvature, and satisfies some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Shunzi Guo

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Bendong Lou

We study fully nonlinear geometric flows that deform strictly $k$-convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space with pointwise normal speed given by a concave function of the principal curvatures. Specifically, the speeds we consider are obtained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Stephen Lynch

We study the deformation of a liquid interface with arbitrary principal curvatures by a flat circular sheet. Working first at small slopes, we determine the shape of the sheet analytically in the membrane limit, where the sheet is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-03 Zachariah S. Schrecengost , Seif Hejazine , Jordan V. Barrett , Vincent Démery , Joseph D. Paulsen

We show the existence of a smooth solution for the flow deformed by the square root of the scalar curvature multiplied by a positive anisotropic factor $\psi$ given a strictly convex initial hypersurface in Euclidean space suitably pinched.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Hyunsuk Kang , Lami Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee

In this article, we study a locally constrained fully nonlinear curvature flow for convex capillary hypersurfaces in half-space. We prove that the flow preserves the convexity, exists for all time, and converges smoothly to a spherical cap.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

In this paper, we study the deformation of the n-dimensional strictly convex hypersurface in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ whose speed at a point on the hypersurface is proportional to $\alpha$-power of positive part of Gauss Curvature. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Lami Kim , Ki-ahm Lee

We consider compact convex hypersurfaces contracting by functions of their curvature. Under the mean curvature flow, uniformly convex smooth initial hypersurfaces evolve to remain smooth and uniformly convex, and contract to points after…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Ben Andrews , James McCoy , Yu Zheng

In this paper, we introduce a volume- or area-preserving curvature flow for hypersurfaces with capillary boundary in the half-space, with speed given by a positive power of the mean curvature with a non-local averaging term. We demonstrate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Carlo Sinestrari , Liangjun Weng

We study the effect of a uniform shear flow on an interface separating the two broken-symmetry ordered phases of a two-dimensional system with nonconserved scalar order parameter. The interface, initially flat and perpendicular to the flow,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rui D. M. Travasso , Alan J. Bray , Andrea Cavagna

In this paper, we first investigate a new locally constrained mean curvature flow (1.5) and prove that if the initial hypersurface is of smoothly compact starshaped, then the solution of the flow (1.5) exists for all time and converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 J. Cui , P. Zhao

We investigate the sharp interface limit of a diffuse interface system that couples the Allen--Cahn equation with the instationary Navier--Stokes system in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d \in \{2,3\}$. This model is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Sebastian Hensel , Yuning Liu

In this paper, we study the flow of closed, starshaped hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed $r^\alpha\sigma_2^{1/2},$ where $\sigma_2^{1/2}$ is the normalized square root of the scalar curvature, $\alpha\geq 2,$ and $r$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Ling Xiao

We study the flow $M_t$ of a smooth, strictly convex hypersurface by its mean curvature in $\mathrm{R}^{n+1}$. The surface remains smooth and convex, shrinking monotonically until it disappears at a critical time $T$ and point $x^*$ (which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Ilmanen , Natasa Sesum
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