Evolution equations for shapes and geometries

DOI10.1007/S00028-006-0257-8MaRDI QIDQ862251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel C. Delfour, J. P. Zolesio

Publication date 24 January 2007

Published in Journal of Evolution Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00028-006-0257-8

boundary measure characteristic function Courant metric oriented distance function thin boundary

Initial value problems for linear first-order PDEs (35F10) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Set-valued and variational analysis (49J53) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

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The authors consider the evolution problem \(dx(t)/dt=V(t,x(t))\), where \(V\) is a given velocity field in \(L^{\infty }(]0,\tau [ ,C_{0}^{0,1}( \overline{D},\mathbb{R}^{N}))\), at least, where \(D\) is an open subset of \( \mathbb{R}^{N}\) with Lipschitz boundary. The solution \(x\) starts from a given data \(x_{0}\) at \(t=0\). The authors define the transformation mapping \( T_{t}\) from \(D\) to \(D\) through \(T_{t}(x_{0})=x(t)\). For any measurable subset \(\Omega \) of \(D\), they finally define the domain \(\Omega _{t}=T_{t}(\Omega )\). The first main result of the paper proves some continuity and differentiability properties of the functions defined through \(t\mapsto \int_{\Omega _{t}}\varphi\,dx\), for every \(\varphi \in L^{1}(D)\). Then the authors prove that the characteristic function \(\chi \) of \(\Omega _{t}\) is the solution of the first-order differential equation \(d\chi (t)/dt+\nabla \chi (t)\cdot V=0\), \(\chi \) starting from the characteristic function of \(\Omega \) at \(t=0\). The next part of the paper proves quite similar similar results but for the characteristic function of the boundary \( \Gamma _{t}\) of \(\Omega _{t}\). A weak formulation of this equation is introduced. In the last part of the paper, the authors introduce the oriented distance function \(b_{\Omega }=d_{\Omega }-d_{\complement \Omega }\) . The last main result of the paper proves that \(b_{\Omega _{t}}\) is the solution of a quite similar first-order evolution equation, which involves the projection on \(\Gamma _{t}\). Here \(\Omega \) is supposed to have a thin boundary.

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