During the development of a convergence theory for Nicolaides’ extension [21, 24] of the classical MAC scheme [25, 22, 26] for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to unstructured triangle meshes, it became clear that a convergence theory for a new kind of finite volume discretizations for the biharmonic problem would be a very useful tool in the convergence analysis of the generalized MA...

We investigate proper biharmonic hypersurfaces with at most three distinct principal curvatures in space forms. We obtain the full classification of proper biharmonic hypersurfaces in 4-dimensional space forms.

In the present paper we survey the most recent classification results for proper biharmonic submanifolds in unit Euclidean spheres. We also obtain some new results concerning geometric properties of proper biharmonic constant mean curvature submanifolds in spheres.

The evaluation of sums (matrix-vector products) of the solutions of the three-dimensional biharmonic equation can be accelerated using the fast multipole method, while memory requirements can also be significantly reduced. We develop a complete translation theory for these equations. It is shown that translations of elementary solutions of the biharmonic equation can be achieved by considering ...

A Laguerre minimal surface is an immersed surface in R being an extremal of the functional ∫ (H/K− 1)dA. In the present paper, we prove that any ruled Laguerre minimal surface distinct from a plane is up to motion a convolution of the helicoid x = y tan z, the cycloid r(t) = (t− sin t, 1−cos t, 0) and the Plücker conoid (ax+ by) = z(x+y) for some a, b ∈ R. To achieve invariance under Laguerre t...

We consider low-Reynolds-number axisymmetric flow about two spheres using a novel, biharmonic stream function. This enables us to calculate analytically not only the forces, but also the dipole moments stresslets and pressure moments and the associated resistance functions. In this paper the basics properties of axisymmetric flow and the stream function are discussed. Explicit series expansions...

In this article we prove the regularity of weakly biharmonic maps of domains in Euclidean four space into spheres, as well as the corresponding partial regularity result of stationary biharmonic maps of higher-dimensional domains into spheres. c © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Introduction In this article we consider the notion of biharmonic maps and begin an analytic study of the regularity pro...

We construct biharmonic real hypersurfaces and Lagrangian submanifolds of Clifford torus type in CPn via the Hopf fibration; and get new examples of biharmonic submanifolds in S as byproducts .

Abstract. This paper derives a new scheme for the mixed finite element method for the biharmonic equation in which the flow function is approximated by piecewise quadratic polynomial and vortex function by piecewise linear polynomials. Assuming that the partition, with triangles as elements, is quasi-uniform, then the proposed scheme can achieve the approximation order that is observed by the C...

The use of the biharmonic operator for deforming a mesh in an arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian simulation is investigated. The biharmonic operator has the advantage that two conditions can be specified on each boundary of the mesh. This allows both the position and the normal mesh spacing along a boundary to be controlled, which is important for two-fluid interfaces and periodic boundaries. At the...