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For each integer $m\ge0$ we study the $m$-ideal energy \[ E_m[\gamma]:=\frac12\int_\gamma k_{s^m}^2\,ds \] on closed immersed planar curves, where $k$ is signed curvature and $s$ is arclength; $k^2_{s^m} := (k_{s^m})^2$. The $m$-ideal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 James McCoy , Glen Wheeler

In this work we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the incompressible two-dimensional Euler equations in the exterior of a single smooth obstacle when the obstacle becomes very thin tending to a curve. We extend results by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Christophe Lacave

In arXiv:2205.02920 a variant of the classical elastic flow for closed curves in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ was introduced, that is more suitable for numerical purposes. Here we investigate the long-time properties of such evolution demonstrating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Paola Pozzi

We establish the existence, stability, and asymptotic behavior of transonic flows with a transonic shock past a curved wedge for the steady full Euler equations in an important physical regime, which form a nonlinear system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Gui-Qiang Chen , Jun Chen , Mikhail Feldman

In this paper, we deal with an inverse curvature flow of $\ell$-convex Legendre curves. Since the Legendre curve is a natural generalization of regular curve, the flow is a generalization of the classical inverse curvature flow of regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Takashi Kagaya , Masatomo Takahashi

We examine a steepest energy descent flow with obstacle constraint in higher order energy frameworks where the maximum principle is not available. We construct the flow under general assumptions using De Giorgi's minimizing movement scheme.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Marius Müller

This communication is devoted to the presentation of our recent results regarding the asymptotic analysis of a viscous flow in a tube with elastic walls. This study can be applied, for example, to the blood flow in an artery. With this aim,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-14 G. Castiñeira , J. M. Rodríguez

Huisken's problem asks whether there is an elastic flow of closed planar curves that is initially contained in the upper half-plane but `migrates' to the lower half-plane at a positive time. Here we consider variants of Huisken's problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Tomoya Kemmochi , Tatsuya Miura

In this paper, we study the two-dimensional steady compactly supported incompressible Euler equations with free boundaries. We consider flows with constant vorticity that are perturbations of annular equilibria, in contrast to the laminar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

We study stationary points of the bending energy of curves $\gamma\colon[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}^n$ subject to constraints on the arc-length and the curve's holonomy while simultaneously allowing for a variable bending stiffness along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Oliver Gross , Ulrich Pinkall , Moritz Wahl

We consider a parabolic obstacle problem for Euler's elastic energy of graphs with fixed ends. We show global existence, well-posedness and subconvergence provided that the obstacle and the initial datum are suitably 'small'. For symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Marius Müller

We exploit a two-dimensional model [7], [6] and [1] describing the elastic behavior of the wall of a flexible blood vessel which takes interaction with surrounding muscle tissue and the 3D fluid flow into account. We study time periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 V. Kozlov , S. Nazarov , G. Zavorokhin

We use the minimizing movement theory to study the gradient flow associated with a non-regular relaxation of a geometric functional derived from the Willmore energy. Thanks to the coarea formula, one can define a Willmore energy on regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-07 François Dayrens

Geometric gradient flows for elastic energies of Willmore type play an important role in mathematics and in many applications. The evolution of elastic curves has been studied in detail both for closed as well as for open curves. Although…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Harald Garcke , Julia Menzel , Alessandra Pluda

In this expository note we discuss our recent work [arXiv:1306.5028] on the nonlinear asymptotic stability of shear flows in the 2D Euler equations of ideal, incompressible flow. In that work it is proved that perturbations to the Couette…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Jacob Bedrossian , Nader Masmoudi

In this paper we study the $H^2(ds)$-gradient flow for the modified elastic energy defined on closed curves in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We prove the existence of a unique global-in-time solution to the flow and establish full convergence to elastica…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Shinya Okabe , Philip Schrader

The asymptotic derivation of a new family of one-dimensional, weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive equations that model the flow of an ideal fluid in an elastic vessel is presented. Dissipative effects due to the viscous nature of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Denys Dutykh , Li Qian

Elastic turbulence is a spatially and temporally disordered flow state appearing in viscoelastic fluids at vanishing fluid inertia and large elasticity. The resulting flows have broad technological interest, particularly to enhance mixing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zhongxuan Hou , Stefano Berti , Teodor Burghelea , Francesco Romanò

We are concerned with rigidity properties of steady Euler flows in two-dimensional bounded annuli. We prove that in an annulus, a steady flow with no interior stagnation point and tangential boundary conditions is a circular flow, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Yuchen Wang , Weicheng Zhan

We study the asymptotic behavior and the asymptotic stability of the two-dimensional Euler equations and of the two-dimensional linearized Euler equations close to parallel flows. We focus on spectrally stable jet profiles $U(y)$ with…

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