scholarly journals A Physics-Based Estimation of Mean Curvature Normal Vector for Triangulated Surfaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Sudip Kumar Das ◽  
Mirza Cenanovic ◽  
Junfeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Beltrami Operator ◽  
Force Balance ◽  
Normal Vector ◽  
Triangulated Surface ◽  
Balance Principle ◽  
Alternative Expression ◽  
Triangulated Surfaces ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mesh Structures

In this note, we derive an approximation for the mean curvature normal vector on vertices of triangulated surface meshes from the Young-Laplace equation and the force balance principle. We then demonstrate that the approximation expression from our physics-based derivation is equivalent to the discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator approach in the literature. This work, in addition to providing an alternative expression to calculate the mean curvature normal vector, can be further extended to other mesh structures, including non-triangular and heterogeneous meshes.

scholarly journals The Gauss Map and the Third Laplace-Beltrami Operator of the Rotational Hypersurface in 4-Space

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erhan Güler ◽  
Hasan Hacısalihoğlu ◽  
Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Gaussian Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Gauss Map ◽  
Beltrami Operator ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Mean

We study and examine the rotational hypersurface and its Gauss map in Euclidean four-space E 4 . We calculate the Gauss map, the mean curvature and the Gaussian curvature of the rotational hypersurface and obtain some results. Then, we introduce the third Laplace–Beltrami operator. Moreover, we calculate the third Laplace–Beltrami operator of the rotational hypersurface in E 4 . We also draw some figures of the rotational hypersurface.

Horospherical convex hypersurfaces contracting of the hyperbolic space by functions of the mean curvature

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (08) ◽  
pp. 1950039
Author(s):  
Shunzi Guo
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Hyperbolic Space ◽  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Normal Vector ◽  
Unit Normal Vector ◽  
Final Time ◽  
Maximal Interval ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Convex Hypersurfaces

This paper concerns the evolution of a closed hypersurface of the hyperbolic space, convex by horospheres, in direction of its inner unit normal vector, where the speed equals a smooth function depending only on the mean curvature, and satisfies some further restrictions, without requiring homogeneity. It is shown that the flow exists on a finite maximal interval, convexity by horospheres is preserved and the hypersurfaces shrink down to a single point as the final time is approached. This generalizes the previous result [S. Guo, Convex hypersurfaces evolving by functions of the mean curvature, preprint (2016), arXiv:1610.08214 ] for convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space by the author to the setting in the hyperbolic space for the same class of flows.

scholarly journals The Third Laplace-Beltrami Operator of the Rotational Hypersurface in 4-Space

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erhan Güler
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Gaussian Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Beltrami Operator ◽  
Dimensional Euclidean Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Mean

We consider rotational hypersurface in the four dimensional Euclidean space. We calculate the mean curvature and the Gaussian curvature, and some relations of the rotational hypersurface. Moreover, we define the third Laplace-Beltrami operator and apply it to the rotational hypersurface.

scholarly journals Evolution of the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator and the p-Laplace operator under a forced mean curvature flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1518-1530
Author(s):  
Xuesen Qi ◽  
Ximin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Laplace Operator ◽  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Second Fundamental Form ◽  
Coefficient Function ◽  
First Eigenvalue ◽  
Initial Hypersurface ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Laplace Operator

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the monotonicity of the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplace operator and the p-Laplace operator under a forced mean curvature flow (MCF). By imposing conditions associated with the mean curvature of the initial hypersurface and the coefficient function of the forcing term of a forced MCF, and some special pinching conditions on the second fundamental form of the initial hypersurface, we prove that the first nonzero closed eigenvalues of the Laplace operator and the p-Laplace operator are monotonic under the forced MCF, respectively, which partially generalize Mao and Zhao’s work. Moreover, we give an example to specify applications of conclusions obtained above.

The focusing of radiation by a random surface when the source is at a finite distance

1960 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Longuet-Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Joint Distribution ◽  
Total Curvature ◽  
Statistical Distribution ◽  
Constant Parameter ◽  
Random Surface ◽  
Second Derivatives ◽  
Finite Distance ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Image Position

Imagine a nearly horizontal, statistically uniform, random surface ζ(x, y), Gaussian in the sense that the second derivatives , , have a normal joint distribution. The problem considered is the statistical distribution of the quantitywhere J and Ω denote the mean curvature and total curvature of the surface, respectively, and ν is a constant parameter.

Exit radii of submanifolds from cylindrical domains in warped product manifolds

2015 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-569
Author(s):  
Hironori Kumura
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Bounded Domain ◽  
Ricci Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Warped Product ◽  
Product Manifold ◽  
Warped Product Manifold ◽  
Cylindrical Domains ◽  
The Mean

Let UB(p0; ρ1) × f MV be a cylindrically bounded domain in a warped product manifold := MB × fMV and let M be an isometrically immersed submanifold in . The purpose of this paper is to provide explicit radii of the geodesic balls of M which first exit from UB(p0; ρ1) × fMV for the case in which the mean curvature of M is sufficiently small and the lower bound of the Ricci curvature of M does not diverge to –∞ too rapidly at infinity.

scholarly journals Finite topology self-translating surfaces for the mean curvature flow in R3

2017 ◽  
Vol 320 ◽  
pp. 674-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Dávila ◽  
Manuel del Pino ◽  
Xuan Hien Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Finite Topology ◽  
The Mean
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