A physics-based estimation of mean curvature normal vector for triangulated surfaces

DOI10.15673/TMGC.V12I1.1377MaRDI QIDQ5115633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sudip Das, Mirza Cenanovic, Junfeng Zhang

Publication date 17 August 2020

Published in Proceedings of the International Geometry Center (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02271

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace-Beltrami operatormean curvaturemultiphase flowscomputer graphics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Discrete differential geometry (53A70)

Abstract: In this note, we derive an approximation for the mean curvature normal vector on vertices of triangulated surface meshes from the Young-Laplace equation and the force balance principle. We then demonstrate that the approximation expression from our physics-based derivation is equivalent to the discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator approach in the literature. This work, in addition to providing an alternative expression to calculate the mean curvature normal vector, can be further extended to other mesh structures, including non-triangular and heterogeneous meshes.

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