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The evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface driven by both mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface is formulated into a system, which couples the velocity law not only to the surface partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We provide a new proof of convergence to motion by mean curvature (MMC) for the Merriman-Bence-Osher (MBO) thresholding algorithm. The proof is elementary and does not rely on maximum principle for the scheme. The strategy is to construct a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Drew Swartz , Nung Kwan Yip

Error estimates are proved for an evolving surface finite element semi-discretization for anisotropic mean curvature flow of closed surfaces. For the geometric surface flow, a system coupling the anisotropic evolution law to parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Klaus Deckelnick , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of a variant of the mean curvature flow. We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces with normal speed given by $H^k$, $k \ge 1$, where $H$ denotes the mean curvature. We use a level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Axel Kröner , Eva Kröner , Heiko Kröner

We consider the obstacle problem of the weak solution for the mean curvature flow, in the sense of Brakke's mean curvature flow. We prove the global existence of the weak solution with obstacles which have $C^{1,1}$ boundaries, in two and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Keisuke Takasao

We develop a numerical method for realizing mean curvature motion of interfaces separating multiple phases, whose areas are preserved throughout time. The foundation of the method is a thresholding algorithm of the Bence-Merriman-Osher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Karel Svadlenka , Elliott Ginder , Seiro Omata

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

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Bendong Lou

We consider the problem of evolving hypersurfaces by mean curvature flow in the presence of obstacles, that is domains which the flow is not allowed to enter. In this paper, we treat the case of complete graphs and explain how the approach…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Melanie Rupflin , Oliver C. Schnürer

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 develop a new boundary condition for the weak inverse mean curvature flow, which gives canonical and non-trivial solutions in bounded domains. Roughly speaking, the boundary of the domain serves as an outer obstacle, and the evolving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Kai Xu

In this paper we address anisotropic and inhomogeneous mean curvature flows with forcing and mobility, and show that the minimizing movements scheme converges to level set/viscosity solutions and to distributional solutions \textit{\`a la}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Antonin Chambolle , Daniele De Gennaro , Massimiliano Morini

In this paper we discuss novel numerical schemes for the computation of the curve shortening and mean curvature flows that are based on special reparametrizations. The main idea is to use special solutions to the harmonic map heat flow in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Charles M. Elliott , Hans Fritz

Optimal-order uniform-in-time $H^1$-norm error estimates are given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of surfaces in arbitrarily high codimension. The proposed and studied numerical method is based on a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

A Lagrangian-type numerical scheme called the "comoving mesh method" or CMM is developed for numerically solving certain classes of moving boundary problems which include, for example, the classical Hele-Shaw flow problem and the well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yosuke Sunayama , Masato Kimura , Julius Fergy Rabago

In this article we address flow problems that carry a multiscale character in time. In particular we consider the Navier-Stokes flow in a channel on a fast scale that influences the movement of the boundary which undergoes a deformation on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Stefan Frei , Thomas Richter

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

We consider a fully discrete and explicit scheme for the mean curvature flow of boundaries, based on an elementary diffusion step and a precise redistancing operation. We give an elementary convergence proof for the scheme under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Antonin Chambolle , Daniele De Gennaro , Massimiliano Morini

In the last 15 years, White and Huisken-Sinestrari developed a far-reaching structure theory for the mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces. Their papers provide a package of estimates and structural results that yield a precise…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner