Diffusion-redistanciation schemes for 2D and 3D constrained Willmore flow: application to the equilibrium shapes of vesicles

11/06/2020
by   Thibaut Metivet, et al.
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In this paper we present a novel algorithm for simulating geometrical flows, and in particular the Willmore flow, with conservation of volume and area. The idea is to adapt the class of diffusion-redistanciation algorithms to the Willmore flow in both two and three dimensions. These algorithms rely on alternating diffusions of the signed distance function to the interface and a redistanciation step, and with careful choice of the applied diffusions, end up moving the zero level-set of the distance function by some geometrical quantity without resorting to any explicit transport equation. The constraints are enforced between the diffusion and redistanciation steps via a simple rescaling method. The energy globally decreases at the end of each global step. The algorithms feature the computational efficiency of thresholding methods without requiring any adaptive remeshing thanks to the use of a signed distance function to describe the interface. This opens their application to dynamic fluid-structure simulations for large and realistic cases. The methodology is validated by computing the equilibrium shapes of two- and three-dimensional vesicles, as well as the Clifford torus.

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