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We consider regular open curves in R^n with fixed boundary points and moving according to the L^{2}-gradient flow for a generalisation of the Helfrich functional. Natural boundary conditions are imposed along the evolution. More precisely,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Anna Dall'Acqua , Paola Pozzi

In this article, the author investigates flow lines of the classical Willmore flow, which start to move in a smooth parametrization of a Hopf-torus in $\mathbb{S}^3$. We prove that any such flow line of the Willmore flow exists globally, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ruben Jakob

Kuwert and Sch\"atzle showed in 2001 that the Willmore flow converges to a standard round sphere, if the initial energy is small. In this situation, we prove stability estimates for the barycenter and the quadratic moment of the surface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Ernst Kuwert , Julian Scheuer

A new important relation between fluid mechanics and differential geometry is established. We study smooth steady solutions to the Euler equations with the additional property: the velocity vector is orthogonal to the gradient of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Vladimir Yu. Rovenski , Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

We consider the propagation of linear gravity waves on the free surface of steady, axisymmetric flows with purely azimuthal velocity. We propose a two-dimensional set of governing equations for surface waves valid in the deep-water limit.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-17 Emanuele Zuccoli , Edward James Brambley , Dwight Barkley

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

This paper gives some examples of hypersurfaces $\phi_t(M^n)$ evolving in time with speed determined by functions of the normal curvatures in an $(n+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic manifold; we emphasize the case of flow by harmonic mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Robert Gulliver , Guoyi Xu

We propose and analyze volume-preserving parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion, conserved mean curvature flow and an intermediate evolution law in an axisymmetric setting. The weak formulations are presented in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Weizhu Bao , Harald Garcke , Robert Nurnberg , Quan Zhao

In this article, we prove a geometric inequality for star-shaped and mean-convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space by inverse mean curvature flow. This inequality can be considered as a generalization of Willmore inequality for closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Yingxiang Hu

A finite element method for the evolution of a two-phase membrane in a sharp interface formulation is introduced. The evolution equations are given as an $L^2$--gradient flow of an energy involving an elastic bending energy and a line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

In this work, we consider the solid-state dewetting of an axisymmetric thin film on a curved-surface substrate, with the assumption that the substrate morphology is also axisymmetric. Under the assumptions of axisymmetry, the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Zhenghua Duan , Meng Li , Chunjie Zhou

In this paper we continue our study of finding the curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space with a prescribed asymptotic boundary at infinity. Our main results are proved by deriving a priori global gradient estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Ling Xiao

We investigate a new phase field model for representing non-oriented interfaces, approximating their area and simulating their area-minimizing flow. Our contribution is related to the approach proposed in arXiv:2105.09627 that involves ad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Elie Bretin , Antonin Chambolle , Simon Masnou

In this paper we prove some geometric inequalities for closed surfaces in Euclidean three-space. Motivated by Gage's inequality for convex curves, we first verify that for convex surfaces the Willmore energy is bounded below by some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Tatsuya Miura

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

By the classical Li-Yau inequality, an immersion of a closed surface in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with Willmore energy below $8\pi$ has to be embedded. We discuss analogous results for curves in $\mathbb{R}^2$, involving Euler's elastic energy and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Marius Müller , Fabian Rupp

The macroscale structure and microscale fluctuation statistics of late-time asymptotic steady state flows in cylindrical geometries is studied using the methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics. The axisymmetric assumption permits an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-05 Peter B. Weichman

The appearance of a geometric flow in the conservation law of particle number in classical particle diffusion and in the conservation law of probability in quantum mechanics is discussed in the geometrical environment of a two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Naohisa Ogawa

We propose a structure-preserving parametric approximation for geometric flows with general anisotropic effects. By introducing a hyperparameter $\alpha$, we construct a unified surface energy matrix $\hat{\boldsymbol{G}}_k^\alpha(\theta)$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Weizhu Bao , Yifei Li , Wenjun Ying , Yulin Zhang

The unsigned p-Willmore functional introduced in \cite{mondino2011} generalizes important geometric functionals which measure the area and Willmore energy of immersed surfaces. Presently, techniques from \cite{dziuk2008} are adapted to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Anthony Gruber , Eugenio Aulisa