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This article is devoted to the study of certain models for phase transitions involving nonlocal energies. A first part is concerned with to the asymptotic analysis of a system of fractional elliptic equations of Allen-Cahn type as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

A proof of convergence is given for a novel evolving surface finite element semi-discretization of Willmore flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, and also of surface diffusion flow. The numerical method proposed and studied here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

In this paper, we explore the evolution of plane curves and surfaces governed by the hyperbolic mean curvature flow. We propose a mesh-free approach based on the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), which eliminates the need for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Shuangshuang Duan , Chunlei He , Shoujun Huang , Dexing Kong

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

We introduce a notion of uniform convergence for local and nonlocal curvatures. Then, we propose an abstract method to prove the convergence of the corresponding geometric flows, within the level set formulation. We apply such a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Annalisa Cesaroni , Lucia De Luca , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

In two-phase flow simulations, a difficult issue is usually the treatment of surface tension effects. These cause a pressure jump that is proportional to the curvature of the interface separating the two fluids. Since the evaluation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Florian Kummer , Tim Warburton

In this paper, we study an obstacle problem associated with the mean curvature flow with constant driving force. Our first main result concerns interior and boundary regularity of the solution. We then study in details the large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yoshikazu Giga , Hung V. Tran , Longjie Zhang

Finite topology self translating surfaces to mean curvature flow of surfaces constitute a key element for the analysis of Type II singularities from a compact surface, since they arise in a limit after suitable blow-up scalings around the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-19 Juan Dávila , Manuel del Pino , Xuan Hien Nguyen

We introduce a method for computing interfacial motions governed by curvature dependent acceleration. Our method is a thresholding algorithm of the BMO-type which, instead of utilizing a diffusion process, thresholds evolution by the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Elliott Ginder , Karel Svadlenka

We prove convergence of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation to mean curvature flow in the sharp interface limit, in the situation when the parameter corresponding to the kernel goes to zero fast enough with respect to the diffuse interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Helmut Abels , Christoph Hurm , Maximilian Moser

We first give a general introduction to the mean curvature flow, and then discuss fundamental results established over the last 10 years that yield a precise theory for the flow through singularities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. With the aim of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Robert Haslhofer

We study the phenomenon of evolution by horizontal mean curvature flow in sub-Riemannian geometries. We use a stochastic approach to prove the existence of a generalized evolution in these spaces. In particular we show that the value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Nicolas Dirr , Federica Dragoni , Max von Renesse

We employ three different methods to prove the following result on prescribed scalar curvature plus mean curvature problem: Let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold with boundary, where $n \geq 3$, assume the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Xuezhang Chen , Pak Tung Ho , Liming Sun

We study in this paper the convergence of the random splitting method for Allen-Cahn equation in a background flow that plays as a simplified model for phase separation in multiphase flows. The model does not own the gradient flow structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Lei Li , Chen Wang

The evaluation and consideration of the mean flow in wave evolution equations are necessary for the accurate prediction of fluid particle trajectories under wave groups, with relevant implications in several domains, from the transport of…

We propose a mathematical model for fluids in multiphase flows in order to establish a solid theoretical foundation for the study of their complex topology, large geometric deformations, and topological changes such as merging. Our modeling…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Qinghai Zhang , Zhixuan Li

Consider the Allen-Cahn equation $u_t=\varepsilon^2\Delta u-F'(u)$, where $F$ is a double well potential with wells of equal depth, located at $\pm1$. There are a lot of papers devoted to the study of the limiting behavior of the solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Raffaele Folino , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

The aim in these lectures is to study singularity formation, nonuniqueness, and topological change in motion by mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

The $L^2$ gradient flow of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional leads to the Allen Cahn equation that is widely used for modeling phase separation. Machine learning methods for solving the Allen-Cahn equation in its strong form suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Revanth Mattey , Susanta Ghosh

This article describes the mean curvature flow, some of the discoveries that have been made about it, and some unresolved questions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian White