Construction of several second- and fourth-order geometric partial differential equations for space curves |
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Authors: | Guoliang Xu Xuyang Yang |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;2. China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, 750 Proving Ground, Kunming 650051, China |
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Abstract: | Geometric partial differential equations for curves and surfaces are used in many fields, such as computational geometry, image processing and computer graphics. In this paper, a few differential operators defined on space curves are introduced. Based on these operators, several second-order and fourth-order geometric flows for evolving space curves are constructed. Some properties of the changing rates of the arc-length of the evolved curves and areas swept by the curves are discussed. Short-term and long-term behaviors of the evolved curves are illustrated. |
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Keywords: | Geometric partial differential equations Geometric flows Space curves |
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