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We develop two adaptive finite difference methods for the numerical simulation of the Willmore flow, employing the kth-order backward differentiation formula (BDFk) for time discretization, together with monitor functions for dynamic mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Zhenghua Duan , Meng Li

Two finite element approximations of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymeric fluids are considered, in bounded 2- and 3-dimensional domains, under no flow boundary conditions. The pressure and the symmetric conformation tensor are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 John W. Barrett , Sebastien Boyaval

We consider the $L^2$ gradient flow for the Willmore functional in Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry. In the euclidean case E.\;Kuwert and R.\;Sch\"atzle [\textsl{Gradient flow for the Willmore functional,} Comm. Anal. Geom., 10:…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Florian Link

In this work a finite element simulation of the motion of a rigid body in a fluid, with free surface, is described. A completely general referential description (of which both Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions are special cases) of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. J. Childs , B. D. Reddy

A conservative finite-volume framework, based on a collocated variable arrangement, for the simulation of flows at all speeds, applicable to incompressible, ideal-gas and real-gas fluids is proposed in conjunction with a fully-coupled…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Fabian Denner , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

We propose a robust numerical framework for PDE-constrained shape optimization and Willmore-driven surface hole filling. To address two central challenges -- slow progress in flat energy landscapes, which can trigger premature stagnation at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Falai Chen , Buyang Li , Jiajie Li , Rong Tang

In this paper we study the steepest descent $L^2$-gradient flow of the functional $\SW_{\lambda_1,\lambda_2}$, which is the the sum of the Willmore energy, $\lambda_1$-weighted surface area, and $\lambda_2$-weighted enclosed volume, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-24 James McCoy , Glen Wheeler

This paper studies the effect of anisotropy on sharp or diffuse interfaces models. When the surface tension is a convex function of the normal to the interface, the anisotropy is said to be weak. This usually ensures the lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Jean-François Babadjian , Blanche Buet , Michael Goldman

In this paper we present a novel algorithm for simulating geometrical flows, and in particular the Willmore flow, with conservation of volume and area. The idea is to adapt the class of diffusion-redistanciation algorithms to the Willmore…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Thibaut Metivet , Arnaud Sengers , Mourad Ismaïl , Emmanuel Maitre

We consider a system of nonlinear partial differential equations describing the motion of an incompressible chemically reacting generalized Newtonian fluid in three space dimensions. The governing system consists of a steady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Seungchan Ko , Endre Suli

In this paper we show a quantitative rigidity result for the minimizer of the Willmore functional among all projective planes in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\ge 4$. We also construct an explicit counterexample to a corresponding rigidity result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Tobias Lamm , Reiner M. Schätzle

In this paper, a regularity result for the Willmore flow is presented. It is established by means of a truncated translation technique in conjunction with the Implicit Function Theorem.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Yuanzhen Shao

The Canham-Helfrich-Evans models of biomembranes consist of a family of geometric constrained variational problems. In this article, we compare two classes of numerical methods for these variational problems based on piecewise linear (PL)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Jingmin Chen , Thomas Yu , Patrick Brogan , Robert Kusner , Yilin Yang , Andrew Zigerelli

Immersed boundary methods are extensively used for simulations of dynamic solid objects interacting with fluids due to their computational efficiency and modelling flexibility compared to body-fitted grid methods. However, thin geometries,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marin Lauber , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Georges Limbert

We present an improved method for computing incompressible viscous flow around suspended rigid particles using a fixed and uniform computational grid. The main idea is to incorporate Peskin's regularized delta function approach [Acta…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-24 Markus Uhlmann

An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

Accurate polyp segmentation remains challenging due to irregular lesion morphologies, ambiguous boundaries, and heterogeneous imaging conditions. While U-Net variants excel at local feature fusion, they often lack explicit mechanisms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Pu Wang , Huaizhi Ma , Zhihua Zhang , Zhuoran Zheng

We present a hybrid method combining a minimizing movement scheme with neural operators for the simulation of phase field-based Willmore flow. The minimizing movement component is based on a standard optimization problem on a regular grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Martin Rumpf , Josua Sassen , Christoph Smoch

This paper develops a consistent particle method for capturing the highly non-linear behavior of violent free-surface flows, based on an Enhanced Weakly Compressible Moving Particle Semi-implicit (EWC-MPS) method. It pays special attention…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-25 Mojtaba Jandaghian , Abdelkader Krimi , Amir Reza Zarrati , Ahmad Shakibaeinia

We consider a closed Willmore surface properly immersed in ${\R}^m$ (m>2) with square-integrable second fundamental form, and with one point-singularity of finite arbitrary integer order. Using the "conservative" reformulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yann Bernard , Tristan Rivière