A numerical scheme for regularized anisotropic curve shortening flow

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 691-698

  Haußer, Frank ^a   Voigt, Axel ^a  

^a CENTER OF ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CAESAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Faceting; Fourth order equations; Mean curvature flow; Parametric finite elements; Willmore flow; Wulff shape

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FACETING; FOURTH-ORDER EQUATIONS; MEAN CURVATURE FLOW; PARAMETRIC FINITE ELEMENTS; WILLMORE FLOW; WULFF SHAPE;

INTERFACIAL ENERGY;

EID: 33748137781     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2005.05.011     Document Type: Article

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