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

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1053-0zbMATH Open1388.35121arXiv1602.05857OpenAlexW2963194426WikidataQ59471011 ScholiaQ59471011MaRDI QIDQ343013FDOQ343013

Authors: Tim Laux, Felix Otto 

Publication date: 18 November 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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