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Optimal-order uniform-in-time $H^1$-norm error estimates are given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of surfaces in arbitrarily high codimension. The proposed and studied numerical method is based on a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

We consider fully discrete numerical approximations for axisymmetric Willmore flow that are unconditionally stable and work reliably without remeshing. We restrict our attention to surfaces without boundary, but allow for spontaneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

We consider a thin droplet that spreads over a flat, horizontal and chemically heterogeneous surface. The droplet is subjected to changes in its volume though a prescribed, arbitrary spatiotemporal function, which varies slowly and vanishes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Nikos Savva , Danny Groves

We consider the spreading of a thin two-dimensional droplet on a planar substrate as a prototype system to compare the contemporary model for contact line motion based on interface formation of Shikhmurzaev [Int. J. Multiphas. Flow 19, 589…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-08-17 David N. Sibley , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

This article details a novel numerical scheme to approximate gradient flows for optimal transport (i.e. Wasserstein) metrics. These flows have proved useful to tackle theoretically and numerically non-linear diffusion equations that model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Gabriel Peyré

Here, we study the coalescence of two droplets that are moving in the same direction on a soft surface; the motion of the droplets is caused by a gradient in the surface stiffness. As reference, stationary coalescence of the same droplets…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Divyansh Tripathi , Vimal Kishore , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis , Swarn Lata Singh

The geometric motion of small droplets placed on an impermeable textured substrate is mainly driven by the capillary effect, the competition among surface tensions of three phases at the moving contact lines, and the impermeable substrate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Yuan Gao , Jian-Guo Liu

Motivated by important applications in image processing, we study a class of second-order geometric quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). This is inspired by the recent development of second-order damping systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Ye Zhang

The rich structures arising from the impingement dynamics of water drops onto solid substrates at high velocities are investigated numerically. Current methodologies in the aircraft industry estimating water collection on aircraft surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-04 Radu Cimpeanu , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

In this work the evolution of a fluid droplet in vacuum is considered. This means that the surface tension and the fluid forces are in equilibrium at the free boundary. The fluid is governed by the incompressible quasi-steady Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Malte Kampschulte , Joonas Niinikoski , Sebastian Schwarzacher

This paper presents a method for computing two-dimensional constant mean curvature surfaces. The method in question uses the variational aspect of the problem to implement an efficient algorithm. In principle it is a flow like method in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Metzger

We study fully three-dimensional droplets that slide down an incline by employing a thin-film equation that accounts for capillarity, wettability, and a lateral driving force in small-gradient (or long-wave) approximation. In particular, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-15 Sebastian Engelnkemper , Markus Wilczek , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

We simulate the mesoscopic dynamics of droplets formed by phase separated fluids at nanometer scales where thermal fluctuations are significant. Both spherical droplets fully immersed in a second fluid and sessile droplets which are also in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-18 John B. Bell , Andrew Nonaka , Alejandro L. Garcia

We study equilibrium properties of polymer films and droplets on a solid substrate employing particle-based simulation techniques (Molecular Dynamics) and a continuum description. Parameter-passing techniques are explored that facilitate a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-25 Nikita Tretyakov , Marcus Müller , Desislava Todorova , Uwe Thiele

In this work, using a unified framework consisting of third-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin schemes, we perform a comparison between five different numerical approaches to the free-surface shallow flow simulation on bottom steps.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Valerio Caleffi , Alessandro Valiani , Gang Li

The present study deals with the numerical as well as asymptotic analysis of the electrohydrodynamic interaction between two deformable droplets in a confined shear flow. Considering both the phases as leaky dielectric, we have performed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Somnath Santra , Diptendu Sen , Sayan Das , Suman Chakraborty

In this work has been proposed a numerical scheme with the aim of simulate the coalescence process between water drops immersed in a continuous phase (n-heptane). This numerical scheme is based in the Finite Volume method and two different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-10 Alejandro Acevedo-Malavé

The gradient-flow dynamics of an arbitrary geometric quantity is derived using a generalization of Darcy's Law. We consider flows in both Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations. The Lagrangian formulation includes a dissipative modification…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-04-28 Darryl D. Holm , Vakhtang Putkaradze , Cesare Tronci

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

We investigate a one-dimensional model describing the motion of liquid drops sliding down an inclined plane (the so-called quasi-static approximation model). We prove existence and uniqueness of a solution and investigate its long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Inwon Kim , Antoine Mellet