On the existence of mean curvature flow with transport term (Q5962418)

The authors prove the global-in-time existence of weak solution for a hypersurface evolution problem where the velocity is the sum of the mean curvature and an arbitrarily given non-smooth vector field in a suitable Sobolev space. The approximate solution is obtained by the Allen-Cahn equation with transport term. By establishing the density ratio upper bound on the phase boundary measure it is shown that the limiting surface moves with the desired velocity in the sense of Brakke. In the literature, to prove such a result, several methods are used: level set method, minimizing movements method and phase field method. In this paper the authors chose to use the phase field method.