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High-order spatial discretisations and full discretisations of parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces are studied. We prove convergence of the high-order evolving surface finite element method, by showing high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Balázs Kovács

This paper presents a conforming finite element semi-discretization of the streamfunction form of the one-layer unsteady quasi-geostrophic equations, which are a commonly used model for large-scale wind-driven ocean circulation. We derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Erich L Foster , Traian Iliescu , David R. Wells

Motion by weighted mean curvature is a geometric evolution law for surfaces and represents steepest descent with respect to anisotropic surface energy. It has been proposed that this motion could be computed numerically by using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Pedro M. Girão

Based on a recent novel formulation of parametric anisotropic curve shortening flow, we analyse a fully discrete numerical method of this geometric evolution equation. The method uses piecewise linear finite elements in space and a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

In this article, we introduce a variational algorithm, in the spirit of the minimizing movements scheme, to model the volume-preserving anisotropic mean curvature flow in 2D. We show that this algorithm can be used to prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Andrea Kubin , Domenico Angelo La Manna , Enrico Pasqualetto

In this paper we present an error analysis of an Eulerian finite element method for solving parabolic partial differential equations posed on evolving hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. The method employs discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

Motion by (weighted) mean curvature is a geometric evolution law for surfaces, representing steepest descent with respect to (an)isotropic surface energy. It has been proposed that this motion could be computed by solving the analogous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Pedro M. Girão , Robert V. Kohn

We consider a variational scheme for the anisotropic (including crystalline) mean curvature flow of sets with strictly positive anisotropic mean curvature. We show that such condition is preserved by the scheme, and we prove the strict…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

We introduce a surface finite element method for the numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations on evolving surfaces with a prescribed deformation of the surface in normal direction. The method is based on approaches for the full surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Veit Krause , Eric Kunze , Axel Voigt

We consider the evolution of curve networks in two dimensions (2d) and surface clusters in three dimensions (3d). The motion of the interfaces is described by surface diffusion, with boundary conditions at the triple junction points/lines,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Weizhu Bao , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

We study a variant of the mean curvature flow for closed, convex hypersurfaces where the normal velocity is a nonhomogeneous function of the principal curvatures. We show that if the initial hypersurface satisfies a certain pinching…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Tim Espin

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

We use the evolving surface finite element method to solve a Cahn- Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. We start by deriving the equation using a conservation law and appropriate transport for- mulae and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

In this paper we consider finite element approaches to computing the mean curvature vector and normal at the vertices of piecewise linear triangulated surfaces. In particular, we adopt a stabilization technique which allows for first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We study two fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface, given a smooth potential with polynomial growth. In particular we establish optimal order error bounds for a (fully…

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In this paper we study the blow up sequence of mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ with additional forces. We prove that the blow up limit of a mean curvature flow of smoothly embedded surfaces with additional forces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Ao Sun

We perform numerical analysis of a nonlinear gradient flow, which can be regarded as a parabolic minimal surface problem or a regularised total variation flow, using the gradient discretisation method (GDM). GDM is a unified convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jerome Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Huateng Zhu

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 propose and analyze a semi-discrete parametric finite element scheme for solving the area-preserving curve shortening flow. The scheme is based on Dziuk's approach (SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 36(6): 1808-1830, 1999) for the anisotropic curve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su , Ganghui Zhang