A novel finite element approximation of anisotropic curve shortening flow

DOI10.4171/IFB/500arXiv2110.04605OpenAlexW3207164008MaRDI QIDQ6186472FDOQ6186472

Robert Nürnberg, Klaus Deckelnick

Publication date: 2 February 2024

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

Abstract: We extend the DeTurck trick from the classical isotropic curve shortening flow to the anisotropic setting. Here the anisotropic energy density is allowed to depend on space, which allows an interpretation in the context of Finsler metrics, giving rise to e.g. geodesic curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds. Assuming that the density is strictly convex and smooth, we introduce a novel weak formulation for anisotropic curve shortening flow. We then derive an optimal $H^1$--error bound for a continuous-in-time semidiscrete finite element approximation that uses piecewise linear elements. In addition, we consider some fully practical fully discrete schemes and prove their unconditional stability. Finally, we present several numerical simulations, including some convergence experiments that confirm the derived error bound, as well as applications to crystalline curvature flow and geodesic curvature flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04605

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityerror analysisfinite element methodRiemannian manifoldgeodesic curvature flowcrystalline curvature flowanisotropic curvatureanisotropic curve shortening flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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