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We show convergence of the Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system to a classical sharp interface model for the two-phase flow of two viscous incompressible fluids with same viscosities in a smooth bounded domain in two and three space dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Helmut Abels , Julian Fischer , Maximilian Moser

We present two graph-based algorithms for multiclass segmentation of high-dimensional data. The algorithms use a diffuse interface model based on the Ginzburg-Landau functional, related to total variation compressed sensing and image…

We present a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with $n$ vertices and edge capacities from $\{1,\dots,U\}$ in $n^{2+o(1)}\log U$ time, which is almost optimal in dense graphs. Our algorithm is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aaron Bernstein , Joakim Blikstad , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ta-Wei Tu

The famous thresholding scheme by Merriman, Bence, and Osher (Motion of multiple junctions: A level set approach. Journal of Computational Physics 112.2 (1994): 334-363.) proved itself as a very efficient time discretization of mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Fabius Krämer

We give a deterministic $m^{1+o(1)}$ time algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with $m$ edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and capacities. As a consequence, we obtain the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva , Aaron Sidford

We consider the thresholding scheme, a time discretization for mean curvature flow introduced by Merriman, Bence and Osher. We prove a convergence result in the multi-phase case. The result establishes convergence towards a weak formulation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Tim Laux , Felix Otto

In this paper, we develop an $O((m \log k) {\rm MSF} (n,m,1))$-time algorithm to find a half-integral node-capacitated multiflow of the maximum total flow-value in a network with $n$ nodes, $m$ edges, and $k$ terminals, where ${\rm MSF}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Hiroshi Hirai

In this paper, we propose a new scheme for anisotropic motion by mean curvature in $\R^d$. The scheme consists of a phase-field approximation of the motion, where the nonlinear diffusive terms in the corresponding anisotropic Allen-Cahn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Eric Bonnetier , Elie Bretin , Antonin Chambolle

In this paper we give an $\widetilde{O}((nm)^{2/3}\log C)$ time algorithm for computing min-cost flow (or min-cost circulation) in unit capacity planar multigraphs where edge costs are integers bounded by $C$. For planar multigraphs, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Adam Karczmarz , Piotr Sankowski

For $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer polynomially-bounded costs and capacities, we provide a randomized parallel algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem with $\tilde O(m+n^ {1.5})$ work and $\tilde O(\sqrt{n})$ depth. On…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jan van den Brand , Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang , Tijn de Vos

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux

This paper considers and proposes some algorithms to compute the mean curvature flow under topological changes. Instead of solving the fully nonlinear partial differential equations based on the level set approach, we propose some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Arthur Bousquet , Yukun Li , Guanqian Wang

We extend the analysis by Esedo\={g}lu and Otto (2015) of thresholding energies for the celebrated multiphase Bence-Merriman-Osher algorithm for computing mean curvature flow of interfacial networks, to the case of differing space-dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Andrea Chiesa , Karel Svadlenka

The parabolic Allen-Cahn equation is a semilinear partial differential equation linked to the mean curvature flow by a singular perturbation. We show an improved convergence property of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation to the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Huy The Nguyen , Shengwen Wang

In this paper we provide new randomized algorithms with improved runtimes for solving linear programs with two-sided constraints. In the special case of the minimum cost flow problem on $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jan van den Brand , Yin Tat Lee , Yang P. Liu , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , Zhao Song , Di Wang

In 1961, Gomory and Hu showed that the All-Pairs Max-Flow problem of computing the max-flow between all $n\choose 2$ pairs of vertices in an undirected graph can be solved using only $n-1$ calls to any (single-pair) max-flow algorithm. Even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ohad Trabelsi

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

We propose an accelerated computational fluid dynamics framework based on a hybrid Fourier Neural Operator-Lattice Boltzmann Method (FNO-LBM) for steady and unsteady weakly compressible flows. FNO-based initialization significantly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-01 Alexandra Junk , Josef M. Winter , Meike Tütken , Steffen Schmidt , Nikolaus A. Adams

We present an $\tilde{O}\left(m^{\frac{10}{7}}U^{\frac{1}{7}}\right)$-time algorithm for the maximum $s$-$t$ flow problem and the minimum $s$-$t$ cut problem in directed graphs with $m$ arcs and largest integer capacity $U$. This matches…

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