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We consider a finite element approximation for a system consisting of the evolution of a closed planar curve by forced curve shortening flow coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation on the evolving curve. The scheme for the curve evolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-07 John W. Barrett , Klaus Deckelnick , Vanessa Styles

We consider a semi-discrete finite element approximation for a system consisting of the evolution of a planar curve evolving by forced curve shortening flow inside a given bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, such that the curve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Vanessa Styles , James Van Yperen

We consider the $H^{-m}$-gradient flow of length for closed plane curves. This flow is a generalization of curve diffusion flow. We investigate the large-time behavior assuming the global existence of the flow. Then we show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Kohei Nakamura

We prove optimal error bounds for a second order in time finite element approximation of curve shortening flow in possibly higher codimension. In addition, we introduce a second order in time method for curve diffusion. Both schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

Implicit time-stepping for advection is applied locally in space and time where Courant numbers are large, but standard explicit time-stepping is used for the remaining solution which is typically the majority. This adaptively implicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-14 Hilary Weller , Christian Kuehnlein , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

We consider a motion of non-closed planar curves with infinite length. The motion is governed by a steepest descent flow for the geometric functional which consists of the sum of the length functional and the total squared curvature. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Matteo Novaga , Shinya Okabe

The inverse diffusion curve problem focuses on automatic creation of diffusion curve images that resemble user provided color fields. This problem is challenging since the 1D curves have a nonlinear and global impact on resulting color…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Shuang Zhao , Fredo Durand , Changxi Zheng

In this paper, we study a family of curves on $S^2$ that defines a two-dimensional smooth projective plane. We use curve shortening flow to prove that any two-dimensional smooth projective plane can be smoothly deformed through a family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Yu-Wen Hsu

A fully discrete finite element method, based on a new weak formulation and a new time-stepping scheme, is proposed for the surface diffusion flow of closed curves in the two-dimensional plane. It is proved that the proposed method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Wei Jiang , Buyang Li

The existence of translated curves for quasiperiodically forced maps is established, under very mild regularity hypotheses, for rotation numbers of constant type. Among the translated curves, the invariant curves are characterized as the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Amadeu Delshams , Rafael Ortega

In this paper, the general formulation for inextensible flows of curves on oriented surface in $\mathbb{R}^3 $ is investigated. The necessary and sufficient conditions for inextensible curve flow lying an oriented surface are expressed as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Onder Gokmen Yildiz , Soley Ersoy , Melek Masal

We consider closed immersed hypersurfaces in $\R^{3}$ and $\R^4$ evolving by a class of constrained surface diffusion flows. Our result, similar to earlier results for the Willmore flow, gives both a positive lower bound on the time for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-29 James McCoy , Glen Wheeler , Graham Williams

Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Dylan Cant

In this paper, we study families of immersed curves $\gamma:(-1,1)\times[0,T)\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2$ with free boundary supported on parallel lines $\{\eta_1, \eta_2\}:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2$ evolving by the curve diffusion flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We revisit the well-known Curve Shortening Flow for immersed curves in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. We exploit a fundamental structure of the problem to derive a new global construction of a solution, that is, a construction that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Patrick Guidotti

An example of a compact, non-convex, embedded ancient solution for the curve shortening flow, which is asymptotic to Yin-Yang curve, is constructed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Jumageldi Charyyev

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

In 2007, Chow and Glickenstein considered a linear semi-discrete analogue of the second-order curve shortening flow for smooth closed curves. In this article, we consider linear semi-discrete analogues of the polyharmonic curve diffusion…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 James McCoy , Jahne Meyer

In this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting fluid dynamics. It uses a denoising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yannick Gachnang , Vismay Churiwala

We consider a nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion equation with inhomogeneous convection and prove that its entropy solutions in the sense of Kru\v{z}kov are obtained as the - a posteriori unique - limit points of the JKO variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Marco Di Francesco , Daniel Matthes