Stable approximations for axisymmetric Willmore flow for closed and open surfaces

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2021014MaRDI QIDQ5154004zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John W. Barrett, Harald Garcke, Robert Nürnberg

Publication date 1 October 2021

Published in ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01132

zbMATH Keywords

ADE modelaxisymmetryclamped boundary conditionsGaussian curvature energyHelfrich flowline energyNavier boundary conditionsparametric finite elementsspontaneous curvaturestabilitytangential movementWillmore flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs (35B07) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Membranes (74K15) Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15) Biomechanics (92C10)

Abstract: For a hypersurface in ${mathbbR}^3$, Willmore flow is defined as the $L^2$--gradient flow of the classical Willmore energy: the integral of the squared mean curvature. This geometric evolution law is of interest in differential geometry, image reconstruction and mathematical biology. In this paper, we propose novel numerical approximations for the Willmore flow of axisymmetric hypersurfaces. For the semidiscrete continuous-in-time variants we prove a stability result. We consider both closed surfaces, and surfaces with a boundary. In the latter case, we carefully derive weak formulations of suitable boundary conditions. Furthermore, we consider many generalizations of the classical Willmore energy, particularly those that play a role in the study of biomembranes. In the generalized models we include spontaneous curvature and area difference elasticity (ADE) effects, Gaussian curvature and line energy contributions. Several numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of our developed numerical methods.

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