Convergence analysis for the Barrett-Garcke-Nürnberg method of transport type for evolving curves

Bai, Genming and Garcke, Harald and Veerapaneni, Shravan (2026) Convergence analysis for the Barrett-Garcke-Nürnberg method of transport type for evolving curves. NUMERISCHE MATHEMATIK, 158. pp. 361-410. ISSN 0029-599X, 0945-3245

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a Barrett-Garcke-N & uuml;rnberg (BGN) method for evolving curves under a prescribed background velocity field in R2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${{\mathbb {R}}}<^>2$$\end{document} and present the corresponding convergence analysis. Unlike mean curvature flow and surface diffusion, where the evolution velocities inherently exhibit parabolicity, this case is dominated by transport which poses a significant difficulty in establishing convergence proofs. To address the challenges imposed by this transport-dominant nature, we derive several discrete energy estimates of the transport type on discretized polynomial curves within the framework of the projection error. The use of the projection error is indispensable as it provides crucial additional stability through its orthogonality structure. We prove that the proposed method converges sub-optimally in the L2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$L<^>2$$\end{document} norm, and this is the first convergence proof for a fully discrete numerical method solving the evolution of curves driven by general flows.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: FINITE-ELEMENT-METHOD; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; PARTIAL-DIFFERENTIAL-EQUATIONS; REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; MEAN-CURVATURE FLOW; ERROR ANALYSIS; ELASTIC FLOW; SURFACE; APPROXIMATION; SCHEME
Subjects: 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
Divisions: Mathematics > Prof. Dr. Harald Garcke
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2026 08:25
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2026 08:25
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66696

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