Can Mean-Curvature Flow Be Made Non-Singular?
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Publication:6231982
arXiv1203.6819MaRDI QIDQ6231982FDOQ6231982
Jake P. Solomon, Michael Kazhdan, Mirela Ben-Chen
Publication date: 30 March 2012
Abstract: This work considers the question of whether mean-curvature flow can be modified to avoid the formation of singularities. We analyze the finite-elements discretization and demonstrate why the original flow can result in numerical instability due to division by zero. We propose a variation on the flow that removes the numerical instability in the discretization and show that this modification results in a simpler formulation for both the discretized and continuous formulations. We discuss the properties of the modified flow and present empirical evidence that not only does it define a stable surface evolution for genus-zero surfaces, but that the evolution converges to a conformal parameterization of the surface onto the sphere.
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