Phase field method for mean curvature flow with boundary constraints

Elie Bretin; Valerie Perrier

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (2012)

  • Volume: 46, Issue: 6, page 1509-1526
  • ISSN: 0764-583X

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This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of mean curvature flow t → Ω(t) satisfying an additional inclusion-exclusion constraint Ω1 ⊂ Ω(t) ⊂ Ω2. Classical phase field model to approximate these evolving interfaces consists in solving the Allen-Cahn equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In this work, we introduce a new phase field model, which can be viewed as an Allen Cahn equation with a penalized double well potential. We first justify this method by a Γ-convergence result and then show some numerical comparisons of these two different models.

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Bretin, Elie, and Perrier, Valerie. "Phase field method for mean curvature flow with boundary constraints." ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis 46.6 (2012): 1509-1526. <http://eudml.org/doc/276375>.

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author = {Bretin, Elie, Perrier, Valerie},
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