Convergence of the thresholding scheme for multi-phase mean-curvature flow

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1053-0MaRDI QIDQ343013zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tim Laux, Felix Otto

Publication date 18 November 2016

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05857

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Heat kernel (35K08) Quasilinear parabolic equations with mean curvature operator (35K93) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Numerical solutions to abstract evolution equations (65J08)

Abstract: We consider the thresholding scheme, a time discretization for mean curvature flow introduced by Merriman, Bence and Osher. We prove a convergence result in the multi-phase case. The result establishes convergence towards a weak formulation of mean curvature flow in the BV-framework of sets of finite perimeter. The proof is based on the interpretation of the thresholding scheme as a minimizing movement scheme by Esedoglu et. al.. This interpretation means that the thresholding scheme preserves the structure of (multi-phase) mean curvature flow as a gradient flow w. r. t. the total interfacial energy. More precisely, the thresholding scheme is a minimizing movement scheme for an energy functional that $Gamma$-converges to the total interfacial energy. In this sense, our proof is similar to the convergence results of Almgren, Taylor and Wang and Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker, which establish convergence of a more academic minimizing movement scheme. Like the one of Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker, ours is a conditional convergence result, which means that we have to assume that the time-integrated energy of the approximation converges to the time-integrated energy of the limit. This is a natural assumption, which however is not ensured by the compactness coming from the basic estimates.

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