Minimal surface computation using a finite element method on an embedded surface

DOI10.1002/NME.4892MaRDI QIDQ2952832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mirza Cenanovic, Peter Hansbo, Mats G. Larson

Publication date 30 December 2016

Published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3535

zbMATH Keywords

ghost penalty stabilizationLaplace-Beltrami operatorlevel setmean curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: We suggest a finite element method for computing minimal surfaces based on computing a discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator operating on the coordinates of the surface. The surface is a discrete representation of the zero level set of a distance function using linear tetrahedral finite elements, and the finite element discretization is done on the piecewise planar isosurface using the shape functions from the background three dimensional mesh used to represent the distance function. A recently suggested stabilization scheme is a crucial component in the method.

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