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We investigate the convergence of the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then along the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Entao Zhao

In 1994 Velazquez constructed a smooth \(O(4)\times O(4)\) invariant Mean Curvature Flow that forms a type-II singularity at the origin in space-time. Stolarski very recently showed that the mean curvature on this solution is uniformly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Sigurd Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We describe a numerical procedure to construct a modified velocity field that does not have any mean flow. Using this procedure, we present two results. Firstly, we show that, in the absence of mean flow, spiral defect chaos collapses to a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 K. -H. Chiam , M. R. Paul , M. C. Cross , H. S. Greenside

We obtain estimates on nonlocal quantities appearing in the Volume Preserving Mean Curvature Flow (VPMCF) in the closed, Euclidean setting. As a result we demonstrate that blowups of finite time singularities of VPMCF are ancient solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Ben Lambert , Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

The symmetry group of the mean curvature flow in general ambient Riemannian manifolds is determined, based on which we define generalized solitons to the mean curvature flow. We also provide examples of homothetic solitons in non-Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Xu Han , Zhonghua Hou

We consider a fully discrete and explicit scheme for the mean curvature flow of boundaries, based on an elementary diffusion step and a precise redistancing operation. We give an elementary convergence proof for the scheme under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Antonin Chambolle , Daniele De Gennaro , Massimiliano Morini

The paper studies a curvature flow linked to the physical phenomenon of wound closure. Under the flow we show that a closed, initially convex or close-to-convex curve shrinks to a round point in finite time. We also study the singularity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Shuhui He , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We investigate the formation of singularities for surfaces evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. For axially symmetric flows - surfaces of revolution - in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Neumann boundary conditions, we prove that the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

In [5], S\'aez and Schn\"urer studied the graphical mean curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces defined on subsets of Euclidean space. They obtained long time existence. Moreover, they provided a new interpretation of weak mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Ling Xiao

We prove uniqueness of tangent cones for forced mean curvature flow, at both closed self-shrinkers and round cylindrical self-shrinkers, in any codimension. The corresponding results for mean curvature flow in Euclidean space were proven by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Sven Hirsch , Jonathan J. Zhu

We use integrable systems techniques to study the singularities of timelike non-minimal constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space. The singularities arise at the boundary of the Birkhoff big cell of the loop…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 David Brander , Martin Svensson

Self-shrinkers model singularities of the mean curvature flow; they are defined as the special solutions that contract homothetically under the flow. Colding-Ilmanen-Minicozzi showed that cylindrical self-shrinkers are rigid in a strong…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Qiang Guang , Jonathan J. Zhu

A submanifold in space forms is isoparametric if the normal bundle is flat and principal curvatures along any parallel normal fields are constant. We study the mean curvature flow with initial data an isoparametric submanifold in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xiaobo Liu , Chuu-Lian Terng

Ancient solutions arise in the study of parabolic blow-ups. If we can categorize ancient solutions, we can better understand blow-up limits. Based on an argument of Giga and Kohn, we give a Liouville-type theorem restricting ancient,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Kevin Sonnanburg

We demonstrate via direct numerical simulations that a periodic, oscillating mean flow spontaneously develops from turbulently generated internal waves. We consider a minimal physical model where the fluid self-organizes in a convective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Louis-Alexandre Couston , Daniel Lecoanet , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars

In dimensions $n \geq 5$, we prove a canonical neighborhood theorem for the mean curvature flow of compact $n$-dimensional submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^N$ satisfying a pinching condition $|A|^2 < c|H|^2$ for $c = \min \{…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Keaton Naff

Let $M$ be an even-dimensional, oriented closed manifold. We show that the restriction of a singular Riemannian flow on $M$ to a small tubular neighborhood of each connected component of its singular stratum is foliated-diffeomorphic to an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Igor Prokhorenkov , Ken Richardson

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Bendong Lou

In this article we consider the Lagrangian mean curvature flow of compact, circle-invariant, almost calibrated Lagrangian surfaces in hyperk\"ahler 4-manifolds with circle symmetry. We show that this Lagrangian mean curvature flow can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Jason D. Lotay , Goncalo Oliveira

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang