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The neural Willmore flow of a closed oriented $2$-surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is introduced as a natural evolution process to minimise the Willmore energy, which is the squared $L^2$-norm of mean curvature. Neural architectures are used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Edward Hirst , Henrique N. Sá Earp , Tomás S. R. Silva

This work investigates the formation of singularities under the steepest descent $L^2$-gradient flow of the functional $\mathcal W_{\lambda_1, \lambda_2}$, the sum of the Willmore energy, $\lambda_1$ times the area, and $\lambda_2$ times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Simon Blatt

We show that the concept of $H^2$-gradient flow for the Willmore energy and other functionals that depend at most quadratically on the second fundamental form is well-defined in the space of immersions of Sobolev class $W^{2,p}$ from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Henrik Schumacher

We study ends of an oriented, immersed, non-compact, complete Willmore surfaces, which are critical points of the integral of the square of the mean curvature, in asymptotically flat spaces of any dimension; assuming the surface has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Yann Bernard , Tristan Riviere

We establish an energy quantization for constrained Willmore surfaces, where the constraints are given by area, volume, and total mean curvature, assuming that the underlying conformal structures remain bounded. Furthermore, we show strong…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Christian Scharrer , Alexander West

Here we continue the investigation of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow (MIWF), starting to move in arbitrary smooth and umbilic-free initial immersions $F_0$ which map some fixed compact torus $\Sigma$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ respectively…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ruben Jakob

We propose and analyze an energy-stable fully discrete parametric approximation for Willmore flow of hypersurfaces in two and three space dimensions. We allow for the presence of spontaneous curvature effects and for open surfaces with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

We consider the mean curvature flow of compact convex surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space with free boundary lying on an arbitrary convex barrier surface with bounded geometry. When the initial surface is sufficiently convex, depending only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Sven Hirsch , Martin Li

We show the existence of a global unique and analytic solution for the mean curvature flow, the surface diffusion flow and the Willmore flow of entire graphs for Lipschitz initial data with small Lipschitz norm. We also show the existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-04 Herbert Koch , Tobias Lamm

The biharmonic flow of hypersurfaces $M^n$ immersed in the Euclidean space $\mathbb {R}^{n+1}$ for $n\geq 2$ is given by a fourth order geometric evolution equation, which is similar to the Willmore flow. We apply the Michael-Simon-Sobolev…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Yu Fu , Min-Chun Hong , Gang Tian

In this paper, a regularity result for the Willmore flow is presented. It is established by means of a truncated translation technique in conjunction with the Implicit Function Theorem.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Yuanzhen Shao

We consider the flow of closed convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed given by a power of the $k$-th mean curvature $E_k$ plus a global term chosen to impose a constraint involving the enclosed volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Ben Andrews , Yong Wei

We show that the quantization of energy for Willmore spheres into closed Riemannian manifolds holds provided that the Willmore energy and the area are uniformly bounded. The analogous energy quantization result holds for Willmore surfaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Alexis Michelat , Andrea Mondino

The well-posedness of a phase-field approximation to the Willmore flow with area and volume constraints is established when the functional approximating the area has no critical point satisfying the two constraints. The existence proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Pierluigi Colli , Philippe Laurencot

In this article, we prove two "global existence and full convergence theorems" for flow lines of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow, and we use these results, in order to prove that fully and smoothly convergent flow lines of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ruben Jakob

We prove an $\epsilon$-regularity result for the tracefree curvature of a Willmore surface with bounded second fundamental form. For such a surface, we obtain a pointwise control of the tracefree second fundamental form from a small control…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Yann Bernard , Paul Laurain , Nicolas Marque

We show the short-time existence and uniqueness of solutions for the motion of an evolving hypersurface in contact with a solid container driven by volume-preserving mean curvature flow (MCF) taking line tension effects on the boundary into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Lars Müller

We introduce a parametric framework for the study of Willmore gradient flows which enables to consider a general class of weak, energy-level solutions and opens the possibility to study energy quantization and finite-time singularities. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Francesco Palmurella , Tristan Rivière

The unsigned p-Willmore functional introduced in \cite{mondino2011} generalizes important geometric functionals which measure the area and Willmore energy of immersed surfaces. Presently, techniques from \cite{dziuk2008} are adapted to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Anthony Gruber , Eugenio Aulisa

In this thesis we consider the free surface flow due to a submerged source in a channel of finite depth. This problem has been considered previously in the literature, with some disagreement about whether or not a train of waves exist on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-18 Holger Paul Keeler