Method of moving frames to solve conservation laws on curved surfaces (Q357811)

This paper introduces a new numerical method to deal with partial differential equations on curved surfaces by using the orthogonal moving frames at each grid point to compute the gradient of a scalar variable. In contrast to previous methods, the approach proposed in this paper is free of metric tensors and uses only the surface as the domain. The method is next implemented on four different surfaces: on open sand closed pherical shells, on an irregular closed surface, and on a nonconvex closed surface.