Capillary-type boundary value problems of mean curvature flow with force and transport terms on a bounded domain

TL;DR

This paper investigates capillary-type boundary value problems for forced mean curvature flows and prescribed mean curvature equations on bounded domains, establishing gradient estimates, existence, and long-term behavior of solutions, including asymptotic speeds.

Contribution

It introduces new gradient estimates and existence results for mean curvature flows with force on non-convex domains, extending known results to more general settings.

Findings

Established local and global Lipschitz gradient estimates.

Proved existence of solutions under certain forcing conditions.

Analyzed long-term behavior and asymptotic speeds of solutions.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the forced mean curvature flows and the prescribed mean curvature equations of both graphs and level-sets with capillary-type boundary conditions on a $C^3$ bounded domain, which is not necessarily convex. We prove a priori gradient estimates locally Lipschitz in time. Under an assumption on the forcing term, we prove that the gradient estimates are globally Lipschitz in time. As a consequence, we obtain the existence theorem of solutions. In our formulation, we recover the known results of the gradient estimates on a strictly convex $C^3$ bounded domain. Next, we study the associated eigenvalue problems for mean curvature flows of both graphs and level-sets. We prove the large time behavior of the solutions of mean curvature flows of graphs on a smooth bounded domain. Finally, we compute the asymptotic speed of the solutions of level-set mean curvature flows and the large time profile of level-sets in the radially symmetric case based on optimal control formula. Examples arising in the radially symmetric case demonstrate that the additional assumption on the forcing term is optimal.