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The famous thresholding scheme by Merriman, Bence, and Osher (Motion of multiple junctions: A level set approach. Journal of Computational Physics 112.2 (1994): 334-363.) proved itself as a very efficient time discretization of mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Fabius Krämer

We consider the thresholding scheme, a time discretization for mean curvature flow introduced by Merriman, Bence and Osher. We prove a convergence result in the multi-phase case. The result establishes convergence towards a weak formulation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Tim Laux , Felix Otto

The Merriman-Bence-Osher (MBO) scheme, also known as thresholding or diffusion generated motion, is an efficient numerical algorithm for computing mean curvature flow (MCF). It is fairly well understood in the case of hypersurfaces. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Tim Laux , Aaron Yip

We extend the analysis by Esedo\={g}lu and Otto (2015) of thresholding energies for the celebrated multiphase Bence-Merriman-Osher algorithm for computing mean curvature flow of interfacial networks, to the case of differing space-dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Andrea Chiesa , Karel Svadlenka

In this work, we analyze Merriman, Bence and Osher's thresholding scheme, a time discretization for mean curvature flow. We restrict to the two-phase setting and mean convex initial conditions. In the sense of the minimizing movements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Jakob Fuchs , Tim Laux

We consider the thresholding scheme and explore its connection to De Giorgi's ideas on gradient flows in metric spaces; here applied to mean curvature flow as the steepest descent of the interfacial area. The basis of our analysis is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Tim Laux , Felix Otto

We continue our analysis of the thresholding scheme from the variational viewpoint and prove a conditional convergence result towards Brakke's notion of mean curvature flow. Our proof is based on a localized version of the minimizing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Tim Laux , Felix Otto

In this paper we establish the convergence of three computational algorithms for interface motion in a multi-phase system, which incorporate bulk effects. The algorithms considered fall under the classification of thresholding schemes, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Tim Laux , Drew Swartz

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux

Bence-Merriman-Osher algorithm computes numerically mean curvature flow via solutions of heat equation iteratively initialized at the end of each short time interval. Inspired by the convergence proof of Evans of this algorithm where he…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Emre Baspinar , Giovanna Citti

We develop a numerical method for realizing mean curvature motion of interfaces separating multiple phases, whose areas are preserved throughout time. The foundation of the method is a thresholding algorithm of the Bence-Merriman-Osher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Karel Svadlenka , Elliott Ginder , Seiro Omata

We provide a new proof of convergence to motion by mean curvature (MMC) for the Merriman-Bence-Osher (MBO) thresholding algorithm. The proof is elementary and does not rely on maximum principle for the scheme. The strategy is to construct a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Drew Swartz , Nung Kwan Yip

This paper presents a conditional convergence result of solutions to the Allen--Cahn equation with arbitrary potentials to a De Giorgi type $ \mathrm{BV} $-solution to multiphase mean curvature flow. Moreover we show that De Giorgi type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Pascal Steinke

The Merriman-Bence-Osher threshold dynamics method is an efficient algorithm to simulate the motion by mean curvature. It has the advantages of being easy to implement and with high efficiency. In this paper, we propose a threshold dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Xiaoxue Qin , Alfonso H. W. Ngan , Yang Xiang

The threshold dynamics algorithm of Merriman, Bence, and Osher is only first order accurate in the two-phase setting. Its accuracy degrades further to half order in the multi-phase setting, a shortcoming it has in common with other related,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

The mean curvature flow describes the evolution of a surface (a curve) with normal velocity proportional to the local mean curvature. It has many applications in mathematics, science and engineering. In this paper, we develop a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Yihe Liu , Xianmin Xu

We prove the convergence of phase-field approximations of the Gibbs-Thomson law. This establishes a relation between the first variation of the Van-der-Waals-Cahn-Hilliard energy and the first variation of the area functional. We allow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Röger , Y. Tonegawa

Variational interpolants are an indispensable tool for the construction of gradient-flow solutions via the Minimizing Movement Scheme. The De Giorgi lemma provides the associated discrete energy-dissipation inequality. It was originally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Alexander Mielke , Riccarda Rossi

The structure of many multiphase systems is governed by an energy that penalizes the area of interfaces between phases weighted by surface tension coefficients. However, interface evolution laws depend also on interface mobility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Elie Bretin , Alexandre Danescu , José Penuelas , Simon Masnou

In this paper, we propose a new scheme for anisotropic motion by mean curvature in $\R^d$. The scheme consists of a phase-field approximation of the motion, where the nonlinear diffusive terms in the corresponding anisotropic Allen-Cahn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Eric Bonnetier , Elie Bretin , Antonin Chambolle
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