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A fully discrete finite element method, based on a new weak formulation and a new time-stepping scheme, is proposed for the surface diffusion flow of closed curves in the two-dimensional plane. It is proved that the proposed method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Wei Jiang , Buyang Li

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

We consider the motion of incompressible viscous non-homogeneous fluid described by the Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded cylinder under boundary slip conditions. Assume that the third co-ordinate axis is the axis of the cylinder.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Wojciech M. Zajaczkowski

We propose a new reduced model for gravity-driven free-surface flows of shallow elastic fluids. It is obtained by an asymptotic expansion of the upper-convected Maxwell model for elastic fluids. The viscosity is assumed small (of order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-13 François Bouchut , Sébastien Boyaval

This paper explores the behavior of the torsional rigidity of a precompact domain as the ambient manifold evolves under a geometric flow. Specifically, we derive bounds on torsional rigidity under the Ricci Flow for Heisenberg spaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Vicent Gimeno i Garcia , Fernán González-Ibáñez

We prove that every nearly spherical, positively curved surface is the contractive, volume-preserving image of a round sphere. The proof combines three main tools: the Ricci flow on surfaces, the Kim-Milman construction, and a multiscale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jordan Serres

We study the length-preserving elastic flow of curves in arbitrary codimension with free boundary on hypersurfaces. This constrained gradient flow is given by a nonlocal evolution equation with nonlinear higher-order boundary conditions. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Anna Dall'Acqua , Manuel Schlierf

The closed-universe recollapse conjecture is studied for the spherically symmetric spacetimes. It is proven that there exists an upper bound to the lengths of timelike curves in any Tolman spacetime that possesses $S^3$ Cauchy surfaces and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory A. Burnett

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a $C^{1,1}$ solution of the $Q_k$ flow in the viscosity sense for compact convex hypersurfaces $\Sigma_t$ embedded in $R^{n+1}$ ($n \geq 2$) . In particular, for compact convex hypersurfaces with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-06 M. Cristina Caputo , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

Consider the equivariant wave map equation from Minkowski space to a rotationnally symmetric manifold which has an equator (example: the sphere). In dimension 3, this article gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-26 Pierre Germain

We study the averaged mean curvature flow, also called the volume preserving mean curvature flow, in the particular setting of axisymmetric surfaces embedded in R^3 satisfying periodic boundary conditions. We establish analytic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Jeremy LeCrone

We study the asymptotic behavior of the volume preserving mean curvature and the Mullins-Sekerka flat flow in three dimensional space. Motivated by this we establish a 3D sharp quantitative version of the Alexandrov inequality for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Vesa Julin , Massimiliano Morini , Francesca Oronzio , Emanuele Spadaro

We investigate a steady flow of a viscous compressible fluid with inflow boundary condition on the density and inhomogeneous slip boundary conditions on the velocity in a cylindrical domain $\Omega = \Omega_0 \times (0,L) \in \mathbb{R}^3$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Tomasz Piasecki

We consider geometric flows of hypersurfaces expanding by a function of the extrinsic curvature and we show that the homothethic sphere is the unique solution of the flow which converges to a point at the initial time. The result does not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Susanna Risa , Carlo Sinestrari

Given a planar crystalline anisotropy, we study the crystalline elastic flow of immersed polygonal curves, possibly also unbounded. Assuming that the segments evolve by parallel translation (as it happens in the standard crystalline…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Shokhrukh Yu. Kholmatov , Matteo Novaga

In this short article, we prove the existence of ancient solutions of the mean curvature flow that for t -> 0 collapse to a round point, but for t -> -infinity become more and more oval: near the center they have asymptotic shrinkers…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits

We study an initial boundary value problem on a ball for the heat-conductive system of compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations, in particular, a criterion of breakdown of the classical solution. For smooth initial data away from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Xiangdi Huang

We investigate in this article the boundary layers appearing for a fluid under moderate rotation when the viscosity is small. The fluid is modeled by rotating type Stokes equations known also as the Barotropric mode equations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Soumaya Ben Chaabane , Makram Hamouda , Mahdi Tekitek

We prove a new Minkowski type formula for capillary hypersurfaces supported on totally geodesic hyperplanes in hyperbolic space. It leads to a volume-preserving flow starting from a star-shaped initial hypersurface. We prove the long-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Xiaoxiang Chai , Yimin Chen

A laminar flow of a thin layer of mud down an inclined plane under the action of gravity is considered. The instability of a film flow and the formation of finite amplitude waves are studied in the framework of both two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-01 Alexander Chesnokov