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In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Riccarda Rossi

We review some recent results on the mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds from the perspective of geometric partial differential equations. These include global existence and convergence results, characterizations of first-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Mu-Tao Wang

In this note we study a large class of mean curvature type flows of graphs in product manifold $N\times R$ where N is a closed Riemann- ian manifold. Their speeds are the mean curvature of graphs plus a prescribed function. We establish…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Aijin Lin , Hengyu Zhou

The paper addresses the numerical approximation of two variants of hyperbolic mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. For each evolution law we propose both a finite element method, as well as a finite difference scheme in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

We estimate from above the rate at which a solution to the rescaled mean curvature flow on a closed hypersurface may converge to a limit self-similar solution, i.e. a shrinker. Our main result implies that any solution which converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Rory Martin-Hagemayer , Natasa Sesum

We introduce a geometric evolution equation of hyperbolic type, which governs the evolution of a hypersurface moving in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The flow stems from a geometrically natural action containing kinetic and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Philippe G. LeFloch , Knut Smoczyk

We extend thresholding methods for numerical realization of mean curvature flow on obstacles to the anisotropic setting where interfacial energy depends on the orientation of the interface. This type of schemes treats the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Siddharth Gavhale , Karel Svadlenka

We are concerned with a stochastic mean curvature flow of graphs with extra force over a periodic domain of any dimension. Based on compact embedding method of variational SPDE, we prove the existence of martingale solution. Moreover, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Qi Yan , Xiang-Dong Li

The mean curvature flow is an evolution process under which a submanifold deforms in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The hypersurface case has been much studied since the eighties. Recently, several theorems on regularity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

We determine in a nonperturbative way the critical velocity for superfluidity of a generic quantum fluid flowing past a localized obstacle in the one-dimensional mean-field regime. We get exact expressions in the narrow- and wide-obstacle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-08 Juliette Huynh , Mathias Albert , Pierre-Élie Larré

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 study the phenomenon of Type-II curvature blow-up in mean curvature flows of rotationally symmetric noncompact embedded hypersurfaces. Using analytic techniques based on formal matched asymptotics and the construction of upper and lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-09 James Isenberg , Haotian Wu

In this paper, we study the problem concerning the approximation of a rigid obstacle for flows governed by the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in the two-dimensional case. The idea is to consider a highly viscous fluid in the place of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Sadokat Malikova

We give an overview of the existence and regularity results for curvature flows and how these flows can be used to solve some problems in geometry and physics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Claus Gerhardt

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

In this paper, we prove that if $M_t\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $2\leq n\leq 6$, is the $n$-dimensional closed embedded $\mathcal{F}-$stable solution to mean curvature flow with mean curvature of $M_t$ is uniformly bounded on $[0,T)$ for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Cheng Liang

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

In this paper we prove that the generic singularities of mean curvature flow of closed embedded surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ modeled by closed self-shrinkers with multiplicity has multiplicity one. Together with the previous result by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Ao Sun

In this note, we study an obstacle problem for the elastic flow. We prove the local-in-time existence of weak solutions and discuss their relation to classical solutions when additional regularity is obtained. Related results concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Kensuke Yoshizawa

We study weak solutions to mean curvature flow satisfying Young's angle condition for general contact angles $\alpha \in (0,\pi)$. First, we construct BV solutions using the Allen-Cahn approximation with boundary contact energy as proposed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Sebastian Hensel , Tim Laux