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In this paper, we study a mean curvature type flow with capillary boundary in the unit ball. Our flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed by the hypersurface, and monotonically decreases an energy functional $E$. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

The linear transport equation allows to advect level-set functions to represent moving sharp interfaces in multiphase flows as zero level-sets. A recent development in computational fluid dynamics is to modify the linear transport equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Dieter Bothe , Mathis Fricke , Kohei Soga

In this article, we construct complete embedded constant mean curvature surfaces in $\mb{R}^3$ with freely prescribed genus and any number of ends greater than or equal to four. Heuristically, the surfaces are obtained by resolving finitely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Stephen. J. Kleene

We prove that for the mean curvature flow of two-convex hypersurfaces the intrinsic diameter stays uniformly controlled as one approaches the first singular time. We also derive sharp $L^{n-1}$-estimates for the regularity scale of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Panagiotis Gianniotis , Robert Haslhofer

We develop a theory of surfaces with boundary moving by mean curvature flow. In particular, we prove a general existence theorem by elliptic regularization, and we prove boundary regularity at all positive times under very mild hypotheses.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

In this paper we study nonparametric mean curvature type flows in $M\times\mathbb{R}$ which are represented as graphs $(x,u(x,t))$ over a domain in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with prescribed contact angle. The speed of $u$ is the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Hengyu Zhou

We prove the Multiplicity One Conjecture for mean curvature flows of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Specifically, we show that any blow-up limit of such mean curvature flows has multiplicity one. This has several applications. First, combining…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Richard H Bamler , Bruce Kleiner

We establish gradient estimates for solutions to the Dirichlet problem for the constant mean curvature equation in hyperbolic space. We obtain these estimates on bounded strictly convex domains by using the maximum principles theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Rafael López

The evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface driven by both mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface is formulated into a system, which couples the velocity law not only to the surface partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

In this article, we will study the isoperimetric problem by introducing a mean curvature type flow in the Riemannian manifold endowed with a non-trivial conformal vector field. This flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Li Jiayu , Pan Shujing

Assuming that there exists a translating soliton $u_\infty$ with speed $C$ in a domain $\Omega$ and with prescribed contact angle on $\partial\Omega$, we prove that a graphical solution to the mean curvature flow with the same prescribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Esko Heinonen , Ilkka Holopainen , Jorge H. de Lira

In this paper, we derive global bounds for the H\"older norm of the gradient of solutions of graphic mean curvature flow with boundary of arbitrary codimension.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Qi Ding , J. Jost , Y. L. Xin

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

We define a notion of mean curvature flow with surgery for two-dimensional surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with positive mean curvature. Our construction relies on the earlier work of Huisken and Sinestrari in the higher dimensional case. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 S. Brendle , G. Huisken

In this paper, we consider the mean curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces with a general forcing term. We show that the flow may shrink to a point in finite time if the forcing term is small, or exist for all times and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Guanghan Li , Isabel Salavessa

We investigate a model equation in the crystal growth, which is described by a level-set mean curvature flow equation with driving and source terms. We establish the well-posedness of solutions, and study the asymptotic speed.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Yoshikazu Giga , Hiroyoshi Mitake , Hung V. Tran

We prove Ilmanen's resolution of point singularities conjecture by establishing short-time smoothness of the level set flow of a smooth hypersurface with isolated conical singularities. This shows how the mean curvature flow evolves through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Otis Chodosh , J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Felix Schulze

We propose a construction of mean curvature flows by approximation for very general initial data, in the spirit of the works of Brakke and of Kim & Tonegawa based on the theory of varifolds. Given a general varifold, we construct by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Blanche Buet , Gian Paolo Leonardi , Simon Masnou , Abdelmouksit Sagueni

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

In this paper, under suitable settings, we can obtain the existence of solutions to a class of prescribed Weingarten curvature equations in warped product manifolds of special type by the standard degree theory based on the a priori…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Ya Gao , Chenyang Liu , Jing Mao