FOURTH ORDER GEOMETRIC EVOLUTION EQUATIONS

Compactness of solutions to some geometric fourth-order equations

We prove compactness of solutions to some fourth order equations with exponential nonlinearities on four manifolds. The proof is based on a refined bubbling analysis, for which the main estimates are given in integral form. Our result is used in a subsequent paper to find critical points (via minimax arguments) of some geometric functional, which give rise to conformal metrics of constant Q-cur...

Geometric evolution equations for order parameters

Energy-decreasing continuum flows of geometric order parameters are considered. The dynamics of pattern formation for an arbitrary geometric quantity is derived using a generalization of Darcy’s law based on the geometric nature of the order parameter. We consider flows in both Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations. The Lagrangian formulation includes a dissipative modification of fluid mechanic...

A parametric finite element method for fourth order geometric evolution equations

We present a finite element approximation of motion by minus the Laplacian of curvature and related flows. The proposed scheme covers both the closed curve case, and the case of curves that are connected via triple junctions. On introducing a parametric finite element approximation, we prove stability bounds and compare our scheme with existing approaches. It turns out that the new scheme has v...

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Fourth Order Conservative Exponential Methods for Linear Evolution Equations

A few numerical methods for linear evolution equations are developed and analyzed in this paper. These fourth order methods allow large step sizes for highly oscillatory equations when the evolution operators vary slowly in time. The methods are also conservative for equations such as the Schrr odinger equation, where the evolution operator is skew-selfadjoint.