Comparing motion of curves and hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^m\) (Q2321131)

In this paper, the authors compare the flow of curvature of closed curves in Euclidean space with the moving of hypersurfaces with constrained normal velocity. They start with a parametric description of the flow of curvature of closed curves and an introduction of the notion moving hypersurface. Then, they compare the evolution of the closed curves with the evolution of hypersurfaces at normal speed and treat the particular case of shrinking spheres in details. By an analysis numerically by means of a semi-implicit scheme with discretization based on osculating circles in which the second-order convergence can be observed, they study the motion of curves embedded in a sphere, defined by a parametrization. They end the paper by computational examples that demonstrate the behavior of spherical curves under the curvature flow.