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This paper develops and analyzes a semi-discrete and a fully discrete finite element method for a one-dimensional quasilinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) which describes the stochastic mean curvature flow for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Andreas Prohl

A numerical algorithm for mean curvature flow of closed mean convex surfaces with surgery is proposed. The method uses a finite element based mean curvature flow algorithm based on a coupled partial differential equation system which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Balázs Kovács

The paper is concerned with the error analysis of a numerical scheme for the approximation of parametric mean curvature flow. The scheme we study is based on a reparametrization using the DeTurck trick and was proposed by Elliott and Fritz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Vanessa Styles

We present and analyze three distinct semi-discrete schemes for solving nonlocal geometric flows incorporating perimeter terms. These schemes are based on the finite difference method, the finite element method, and the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Jiang Wei , Su Chunmei , Zhang Ganghui

We propose higher-order isoparametric finite element approximations for mean curvature flow and surface diffusion. The methods are natural extensions of the piecewise linear finite element methods introduced by Barrett, Garcke, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Simon Praetorius , Ganghui Zhang

We extend the DeTurck trick from the classical isotropic curve shortening flow to the anisotropic setting. Here the anisotropic energy density is allowed to depend on space, which allows an interpretation in the context of Finsler metrics,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

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

Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and shares many features with Hamilton's Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In this lecture series, I will provide an introduction to the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Robert Haslhofer

We show that the mean curvature flow for a closed and rotationally symmetric surface can be formulated as an evolution problem consisting of an evolution equation for the square of the function whose graph is rotated and two ODEs describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Harald Garcke , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We show the consistency of a threshold dynamics type algorithm for the anisotropic motion by fractional mean curvature, in the presence of a time dependent forcing term. Beside the consistency result, we show that convex sets remain convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga , Berardo Ruffini

In [21] the evolution of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normal speed equal to a power $k>1$ of the mean curvature is considered and the levelset solution $u$ of the flow is obtained as the $C^0$-limit of a sequence $u^{\epsilon}$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Heiko Kröner

We consider an arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian evolving surface finite element method for the numerical approximation of advection and diffusion of a conserved scalar quantity on a moving surface. We describe the method, prove optimal order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Charles M. Elliott , Chandrasekhar Venkataraman

This paper considers and proposes some algorithms to compute the mean curvature flow under topological changes. Instead of solving the fully nonlinear partial differential equations based on the level set approach, we propose some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Arthur Bousquet , Yukun Li , Guanqian Wang

We present a new implementation of anisotropic mean curvature flow for contour recognition. Our procedure couples the mean curvature flow of planar closed smooth curves, with an external field from a potential of point-wise charges. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-08 P. Suárez-Serrato , E. I. Velázquez Richards

Convergence results are shown for full discretizations of quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. As a semidiscretization in space the evolving surface finite element method is considered, using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Balázs Kovács , Christian Andreas Power Guerra

We propose and analyze a fully discrete parametric finite element method with minimal deformation rate (MDR) for simulating the mean curvature flow of general closed surfaces in three dimensions. The method is formulated from a coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Tiantian Huang , Buyang Li , Rong Tang

We show convergence in the natural $L^{\infty}$- and $W^{1,\infty}$-norm for a semidiscretization with linear finite elements of a linear parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. To prove this we show error estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Balázs Kovács , Chrisitan Andreas Power Guerra

Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Meng Li , Yihang Guo , Jingjiang Bi

In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales