An improvement of a recent Eulerian method for solving PDEs on general geometries (Q867033)

The author modifies the method introduced by \textit{M. Bertalmio, L.-T. Cheng, S. Osher}, and \textit{G. Sapiro} [J. Comput. Phys. 174, No. 2, 759--780 (2001; Zbl 0991.65055)] for solving evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) on codimension-one surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) by changing the Eulerian representation to include effects due to surface curvature, and presents numerical examples that include convergence tests in neighborhoods of the surface that shrink with the grid size. This modified PDE has the very useful property that any solution which is initially constant perpendicular to the surface remains so at later times.