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In this paper, we study an obstacle problem associated with the mean curvature flow with constant driving force. Our first main result concerns interior and boundary regularity of the solution. We then study in details the large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yoshikazu Giga , Hung V. Tran , Longjie Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a new constrained mean curvature type flow for capillary boundary hypersurfaces in space forms. We show the flow exists for all time and converges globally to a spherical cap. Moreover, the flow preserves the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

We study the sub-Finsler prescribed mean curvature equation, associated to a strictly convex body $K_0 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{2n}$, for $t$-graphs on a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$. When the prescribed datum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Gianmarco Giovannardi , Andrea Pinamonti , Julián Pozuelo , Simone Verzellesi

In this paper, by considering a special case of the spacelike mean curvature flow investigated by Li and Salavessa [6], we get a condition for the existence of smooth solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Jing Mao

We develop a global theory for complete hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. This theory extends the usual one of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Antonio Bueno , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

In this paper, a novel immersed boundary method is developed, validated, and applied. Through devising a second-order three-step flow reconstruction scheme, the proposed method is able to enforce the Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, and Cauchy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-10 Huangrui Mo , Fue-Sang Lien , Fan Zhang , Duane S. Cronin

We study the Dirichlet problem for the following prescribed mean curvature PDE $$ \begin{cases} -\operatorname{div}\dfrac{\nabla v}{\sqrt{1+|\nabla v|^{2}}}=f(x,v) \text{ in }\Omega\\ v=\varphi \text{ on }\partial\Omega. \end{cases} $$…

This paper demonstrates existence for all time of mean curvature flow in Minkowski space with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition, where the boundary manifold is a convex cone and the flowing manifold is initially spacelike. Using a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Ben Lambert

We show that a generic levelset of the viscosity solution to mean curvature flow is a distributional solution in the framework of sets of finite perimeter by Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker, which in addition saturates the optimal energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Anton Ullrich , Tim Laux

We study the mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\R^{n+1}$, with initial surfaces sufficiently close to the standard $n$-dimensional sphere. The closeness is in the Sobolev norm with the index greater than $\frac{n}{2}+1$ and therefore…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Israel Michael Sigal , Wenbin Kong

This paper is concerned with the mean curvature flow, which describes the dynamics of a hypersurface whose normal velocity is determined by local mean curvature. We present a Cartesian grid-based method for solving mean curvature flows in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Han Zhou , Shuwang Li , Wenjun Ying

We prove a gradient estimate for graphical spacelike mean curvature flow with a general Neumann boundary condition in dimension $n=2$. This then implies that the mean curvature flow exists for all time and converges to a translating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Ben Lambert

We consider the evolution of fronts by mean curvature in the presence of obstacles. We construct a weak solution to the flow by means of a variational method, corresponding to an implicit time-discretization scheme. Assuming the regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Luís Almeida , Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

We consider a family of axisymmetric curves evolving by its mean curvature with driving force in the half space. We impose a boundary condition that the curves are perpendicular to the boundary for $t>0$, however, the initial curve…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Longjie Zhang

We show short time existence and uniqueness of $\C^{1,1}$ solutions to the mean curvature flow with obstacles, when the obstacles are of class $\C^{1,1}$. If the initial interface is a periodic graph we show long time existence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Gwenael Mercier , Matteo Novaga

In this article, we first show that for all compact Riemannian manifolds with non-empty smooth boundary and dimension at least 3, there exists a metric, pointwise conformal to the original metric, with constant scalar curvature in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Jie Xu

Motivated by previous study on mean curvature flow and prescribed mean curvature flow on spatially compact space or asymptotically flat spacetime, in this work we will find sufficient conditions for the short time existence of prescribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Luen-Fai Tam

Wang, Weng and Xia[Math. Ann. 388 (2024), no. 2] studied a mean curvature type flow for the smooth, embedded capillary hypersurfaces with a constant contact angle $\theta\in(0,\pi)$ and confirmed the existence of solutions by the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Linlin Fan , Peibiao Zhao

We study a generalized mean curvature flow involving a positive power of the mean curvature and a driving force. In this paper, we first construct all kinds of radially symmetric translating solutions, and then select one of them to satisfy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Bendong Lou , Lixia Yuan

Over a bounded strictly convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary, we establish a priori gradient estimate for an anisotropic mean curvature flow with prescribed contact angle and Neumann boundary conditions. The estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Can Cui , Nung Kwan Yip