A symmetrized parametric finite element method for anisotropic surface diffusion in three dimensions

W Bao, Y Li - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2023 - SIAM
We extend the symmetrized parametric finite method for the evolution of a closed curve
under anisotropic surface diffusion in two dimensions, recently proposed by us [W. Bao, W …

A second-order in time, BGN-based parametric finite element method for geometric flows of curves

W Jiang, C Su, G Zhang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, the field of geometric curve evolutions has attracted significant
attention from scientific computing. One of the most popular numerical methods for solving …

A unified structure-preserving parametric finite element method for anisotropic surface diffusion

W Bao, Y Li - Mathematics of Computation, 2024 - ams.org
We propose and analyze a unified structure-preserving parametric finite element method
(SP-PFEM) for the anisotropic surface diffusion of curves in two dimensions $(d= 2) $ and …

Stable Backward Differentiation Formula Time Discretization of BGN-Based Parametric Finite Element Methods for Geometric Flows

W Jiang, C Su, G Zhang - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2024 - SIAM
We propose a novel class of temporal high-order parametric finite element methods for
solving a wide range of geometric flows of curves and surfaces. By incorporating the …

A stabilized parametric finite element method for surface diffusion with an arbitrary surface energy

Y Zhang, Y Li, W Ying - Journal of Computational Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
We proposed a structure-preserving stabilized parametric finite element method (SPFEM) for
the evolution of closed curves under anisotropic surface diffusion with an arbitrary surface …

A structure-preserving parametric finite element method for solid-state dewetting on curved substrates

W Bao, Y Li, Q Zhao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.00438, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider a two-dimensional sharp-interface model for solid-state dewetting of thin films
with anisotropic surface energies on curved substrates, where the film/vapor interface and …

Parametric finite element approximations for anisotropic surface diffusion with axisymmetric geometry

M Li, Q Zhao - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
We consider parametric finite element approximations for the anisotropic surface diffusion
flow in an axisymmetric setting. Based on the anisotropy function, we introduce a symmetric …

An energy-stable parametric finite element method for the planar Willmore flow

W Bao, Y Li - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2025 - SIAM
We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (PFEM) for the planar
Willmore flow and establish its unconditional energy stability of the full discretization …

A structure-preserving parametric finite element method for geometric flows with anisotropic surface energy

W Bao, Y Li - Numerische Mathematik, 2024 - Springer
We propose and analyze a structure-preserving parametric finite element method (SP-
PFEM) for the evolution of a closed curve under different geometric flows with arbitrary …

Structure-preserving parametric finite element method for curve diffusion based on Lagrange multiplier approaches

H Garcke, W Jiang, C Su, G Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.13443, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface
diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order …