A rigorous setting for the reinitialization of first order level set equations

DOI10.4171/IFB/374zbMATH Open1356.35092arXiv1507.00217OpenAlexW2963982201MaRDI QIDQ509099FDOQ509099

Authors: Nao Hamamuki, Eleftherios Ntovoris 

Publication date: 8 February 2017

Published in: Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we set up a rigorous justification for the reinitialization algorithm. Using the theory of viscosity solutions, we propose a well-posed Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a parameter, which is derived from homogenization for a Hamiltonian discontinuous in time which appears in the reinitialization. We prove that, as the parameter tends to infinity, the solution of the initial value problem converges to a signed distance function to the evolving interfaces. A locally uniform convergence is shown when the distance function is continuous, whereas a weaker notion of convergence is introduced to establish a convergence result to a possibly discontinuous distance function. In terms of the geometry of the interfaces, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the continuity of the distance function. We also propose another simpler equation whose solution has a gradient bound away from zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00217

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zbMATH Keywords

distance function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Hamilton-Jacobi equations (35F21) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Initial value problems for nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F25)

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