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The parabolic Allen-Cahn equation is a semilinear partial differential equation linked to the mean curvature flow by a singular perturbation. We show an improved convergence property of the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation to the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Huy The Nguyen , Shengwen Wang

This paper addresses the approximation of the mean curvature flow of thin structures for which classical phase field methods are not suitable. By thin structures, we mean surfaces that are not domain boundaries, typically higher codimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Elie Bretin , Chih-Kang Huang , Simon Masnou

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

We give a short and self-contained proof for rates of convergence of the Allen-Cahn equation towards mean curvature flow, assuming that a classical (smooth) solution to the latter exists and starting from well-prepared initial data. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Julian Fischer , Tim Laux , Theresa M. Simon

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux

This paper presents a conditional convergence result of solutions to the Allen--Cahn equation with arbitrary potentials to a De Giorgi type $ \mathrm{BV} $-solution to multiphase mean curvature flow. Moreover we show that De Giorgi type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Pascal Steinke

For any bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^3$, we establish the global existence of a weak solution $u:\Omega\times (0,+\infty)\to\mathbb R^3\times\mathbb S^2$ of the initial-boundary value (or the Cauchy) problem of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-20 Fanghua Lin , Changyou Wang

In this paper, we study the forced mean curvature flows and the prescribed mean curvature equations of both graphs and level-sets with capillary-type boundary conditions on a $C^3$ bounded domain, which is not necessarily convex. We prove a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Jiwoong Jang

We provide a connection between weak solution concepts of mean curvature flow. On the one side we have the viscosity solution which is based on the comparison principle. On the other, variational solutions, which are combined Brakke flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Tim Laux , Anton Ullrich

This paper studies singularities of mean curvature flows with integral mean curvature bounds $H \in L^\infty L^p_{loc}$ for some $p \in ( n, \infty]$. For such flows, any tangent flow is given by the flow of a stationary cone $\mathbf{C}$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Maxwell Stolarski

In this note we generalize an extension theorem in [5] and [9] of the mean curvature flow to the H^{k} mean curvature flow under some extra conditions. The main difficult problem in proving the extension theorem is to find a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-08 Yi Li

We present a convergence result for solutions of the vector-valued Allen-Cahn Equation. In the spirit of the work of Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker we establish convergence towards a distributional formulation of multi-phase mean-curvature flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Tim Laux , Thilo Simon

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 consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by their mean curvature. We prove a differential Harnack inequality for any weakly convex solution to the mean curvature flow. As an application, by applying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki

We study perturbations of the Allen-Cahn equation and prove the convergence to forced mean curvature flow in the sharp interface limit. We allow for perturbations that are square-integrable with respect to the diffuse surface area measure.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-12 Luca Mugnai , Matthias Röger

We study a stochastically perturbed mean curvature flow for graphs in $\mathbb{R}^3$ over the two-dimensional unit-cube subject to periodic boundary conditions. In particular, we establish the existence of a weak martingale solution. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Martina Hofmanova , Matthias Roeger , Max von Renesse

We prove that if a one-parameter family of varifolds has an $L^2$ normal velocity $v$ in the sense of Brakke, and if the family is represented as the graph of a continuous function $f$ with continuous spatial derivative $\nabla f$, then $f$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Kotaro Motegi

Phase-field models such as the Allen-Cahn equation may give rise to the formation and evolution of geometric shapes, a phenomenon that may be analyzed rigorously in suitable scaling regimes. In its sharp-interface limit, the vectorial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Julian Fischer , Alice Marveggio

This paper is concerned with the sharp interface limit for the Allen-Cahn equation with a nonlinear Robin boundary condition in a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. We assume that a diffuse interface already has developed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Helmut Abels , Maximilian Moser

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