Stable Discretizations of Elastic Flow in Riemannian Manifolds

Autor: John W. Barrett, Robert Nürnberg, Harald Garcke
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 57:1987-2018
ISSN: 1095-7170
0036-1429
DOI: 10.1137/18m1227111
Popis: The elastic flow, which is the $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy, has several applications in geometry and elasticity theory. We present stable discretizations for the elastic flow in two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds that are conformally flat, i.e.\ conformally equivalent to the Euclidean space. Examples include the hyperbolic plane, the hyperbolic disk, the elliptic plane as well as any conformal parameterization of a two-dimensional manifold in ${\mathbb R}^d$, $d\geq 3$. Numerical results show the robustness of the method, as well as quadratic convergence with respect to the space discretization.
Minor revision. 31 pages, 6 figures. This article is closely related to arXiv:1809.01973
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