An error estimate for a new scheme for mean curvature motion

International audienceIn this work, we propose a new numerical scheme for the anisotropic mean curvature equation. The solution of the scheme is not unique, but for all numerical solutions, we provide an error estimate between the continuous solution and the numerical approximation. This error estimate is not optimal, but as far as we know, this is the first one for mean curvature type equation. Our scheme is also applicable to compute the solution to dislocations dynamics equation

A posteriori error analysis for the mean curvature flow of graphs

We study the equation describing the motion of a nonparametric surface according to its mean curvature flow. This is a nonlinear nonuniformly parabolic PDE that can be discretized in space via a finite element method. We conduct an aposteriori error analysis of the spatial discretization and derive upper bounds on the error in terms of computable estimators based on local residual indicators. The reliability of the estimators is illustrated with two numerical simulations, one of which treats the case of a singular solution