On H²-gradient Flows for the Willmore Energy

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Authors: Henrik Schumacher 

Publication date: 19 March 2017

Abstract: We show that the concept of $H^2$-gradient flow for the Willmore energy and other functionals that depend at most quadratically on the second fundamental form is well-defined in the space of immersions of Sobolev class $W^{2,p}$ from a compact, $n$-dimensional manifold into Euclidean space, provided that $pgeq2$ and $p>n$. We also discuss why this is not true for Sobolev class $H^2=W^{2,2}$. In the case of equality constraints, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of the projected $H^2$-gradient flow and demonstrate its usability for optimization with several numerical examples.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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