English
Related papers

Related papers: A fully discrete curve-shortening polygonal evolut…

200 papers

The diffuse-domain, or smoothed boundary, method is an attractive approach for solving partial differential equations in complex geometries because of its simplicity and flexibility. In this method the complex geometry is embedded into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Fei Yu , Zhenlin Guo , John Lowengrub

We investigate the motion of closed smooth curves that evolve in space $\mathbb{R}^3$. The governing evolutionary equation for the evolution of the curve is accompanied by a parabolic equation for the scalar quantity evaluated over the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Michal Benes , Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We establish convergence results for a spatial semidiscretization of Mean Curvature Flow (MCF) for surfaces with fixed boundaries. Our analysis is based on Huisken's evolution equations for the mean curvature and the normal vector, enabling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Bárbara Solange Ivaniszyn , Pedro Morin , M. Sebastián Pauletti

This work proposes an approach for latent-dynamics learning that exactly enforces physical conservation laws. The method comprises two steps. First, the method computes a low-dimensional embedding of the high-dimensional dynamical-system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Kookjin Lee , Kevin Carlberg

This paper investigates a discretization scheme for mean curvature motion on point cloud varifolds with particular emphasis on singular evolutions. To define the varifold a local covariance analysis is applied to compute an approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Blanche Buet , Martin Rumpf

We study two fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface, given a smooth potential with polynomial growth. In particular we establish optimal order error bounds for a (fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

The problem of computing differential constraints for a family of evolution PDEs is discussed from a constructive point of view. A new method, based on the existence of generalized characteristics for evolution vector fields, is proposed in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Francesco C. De Vecchi , Paola Morando

We develop a numerical method for solving a free boundary problem which describes shape relaxation, by surface tension, of a long and thin bubble of an inviscid fluid trapped inside a viscous fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. The method of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arkady Vilenkin , Baruch Meerson

We show that under Space Curve Shortening flow any closed immersed curve in $\mathbb R^n$ whose projection onto $\mathbb{R}^2\times\{\vec{0}\}$ is convex remains smooth until it shrinks to a point. Throughout its evolution, the projection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Qi Sun

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

We consider a general formulation of gradient flow evolution for problems whose natural framework is the one of metric spaces. The applications we deal with are concerned with the evolution of {\it capacitary measures} with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Ulisse Stefanelli

We study one-parameter curves on the universal Teichm\"uller space $T$ and on the homogeneous space $M=\Diff S^1/\Rot S^1$ embedded into $T$. As a result, we deduce evolution equations for conformal maps that admit quasiconformal extensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Vasil'ev

In this work, we propose a novel framework for the numerical solution of time-dependent conservation laws with implicit schemes via primal-dual hybrid gradient methods. We solve an initial value problem (IVP) for the partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Siting Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li , Chi-Wang Shu

We revisit the well-known Curve Shortening Flow for immersed curves in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. We exploit a fundamental structure of the problem to derive a new global construction of a solution, that is, a construction that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Patrick Guidotti

We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sara Albert-Niclòs , Esther Cabezas-Rivas

We consider the relationship between Hele-Shaw evolution with drift, the porous medium equation with superharmonic drift, and a congested crowd motion model originally proposed by [MRS]- [MRSV]. We first use viscosity solutions to show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Damon Alexander , Inwon Kim , Yao Yao

Curve evolution is often used to solve computer vision problems. If the curve evolution fails to converge, we would not be able to solve the targeted problem in a lifetime. This paper studies the theoretical aspect of the convergence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Junyan Wang , Kap Luk Chan

We propose a fully discrete variational scheme for nonlinear evolution equations with gradient flow structure on the space of finite Radon measures on an interval with respect to a generalized version of the Wasserstein distance with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jonathan Zinsl , Daniel Matthes

We consider the numerical treatment of one of the most popular finite strain models of the viscoelastic Maxwell body. This model is based on the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, combined with Neo-Hookean…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Alexey V. Shutov , Ralf Landgraf , Jörn Ihlemann

The Swift--Hohenberg equation is a widely studied fourth-order model, originally proposed to describe hydrodynamic fluctuations. It admits an energy-dissipation law and, under suitable assumptions, bounded solutions. Many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yuki Yonekura , Daiki Iwade , Shun Sato , Takayasu Matsuo