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The main objective of this article is to study the mean curvature flow into an ambient compact smooth manifold M with boundary and with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a self-similar solution of the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Carlos M. de Sousa

Motivated by Pan-Yang [PY] and Ma-Cheng [MC], we study a general linear nonlocal curvature flow for convex closed plane curves and discuss the short time existence and asymptotic convergence behavior of the flow. Due to the linear structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-02 Yu-Chu Lin , Dong-Ho Tsai

We study the formation of generic singularities of mean curvature flow by combining the different approaches, specifically the methods in studying blowup of nonlinear heat equations, the techniques used by the author and the collaborators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Zhou Gang

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Fanqi Zeng , Qun He , Bin Chen

We study the mean curvature flow of graphs both with Neumann boundary conditions and transport terms. We derive boundary gradient estimates for the mean curvature flow. As an application, the existence of the mean curvature flow of graphs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Masashi Mizuno , Keisuke Takasao

In this article we use the mean curvature flow with surgery to derive regularity estimates for the level set flow going past Brakke regularity in certain special conditions allowing for 2-convex regions of high density. We also show a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Alexander Mramor

An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

In this paper we give an explicit bound of $\Delta_{g(t)}u(t)$ and the local curvature estimates for the Ricci-harmonic flow under the condition that the Ricci curvature is bounded along the flow. In the second part these local curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Yi Li

We consider one of the generic regimes of formation of singularities. We obtain a detailed description of a possibly small, but fixed, neighborhood of the blowup point, up to (and including) the blowup time, and find that it is mean convex.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Zhou Gang

We reprove the $\lambda$-Lemma for finite dimensional gradient flows by generalizing the well-known contraction method proof of the local (un)stable manifold theorem. This only relies on the forward Cauchy problem. We obtain a rather…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Joa Weber

This paper considers and proposes some algorithms to compute the mean curvature flow under topological changes. Instead of solving the fully nonlinear partial differential equations based on the level set approach, we propose some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Arthur Bousquet , Yukun Li , Guanqian Wang

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

In this paper we consider a star-shaped hypersurface flow by mean curvature. Without any assumption on the convexity, we give a new proof of gradient estimate for a short time. As an application, we also give a lower bound for the blowing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Ling Xiao

We prove new pinching estimate for the inverse curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces in the space form $N$ of constant sectional curvature $K_N$ with speed given by $F^{-\alpha}$, where $\alpha\in (0,1]$ for $K_N=0,-1$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Yong Wei

We provide a curvature flow approach to the regular Christoffel-Minkowski problem. The speed of our curvature flow is of an entropy preserving type and contains a global term.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

We show some computations related to the motion by mean curvature flow of a submanifold inside an ambient Riemannian manifold evolving by Ricci or backward Ricci flow. Special emphasis is given to the possible generalization of Huisken's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Annibale Magni , Carlo Mantegazza , Efstratios Tsatis

We study the local curvature estimates of long-time solutions to the normalized K\"ahler-Ricci flow on compact K\"ahler manifolds with semi-ample canonical line bundles. Using these estimates, we prove that on such a manifold, the set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong , Yashan Zhang

Mean curvature flow of clusters of n-dimensional surfaces in R^{n+k} that meet in triples at equal angles along smooth edges and higher order junctions on lower dimensional faces is a natural extension of classical mean curvature flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Felix Schulze , Brian White

A family of hypersurfaces evolves by mean curvature flow if the velocity at each point is given by the mean curvature vector. Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and has been extensively studied…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Robert Haslhofer

The study of the mean curvature flow from the perspective of partial differential equations began with Gerhard Huisken's pioneering work in 1984. Since that time, the mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces has been a lively area of study.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-25 Charles Baker