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Fourier Spectral Moving Mesh Method for Willmore Equation of ...

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covariant and contravariant base vectorsa i = ∂⃗x∂ξ i , ai = ∇ξ i , i = 1, 2, 3, (12)which are related bya i = 1 J a j × a k , a i = Ja j × a k , a i · a j = δ i,j (13)With the help <strong>of</strong> the following trans<strong>for</strong>mation relationsJ = a 1 · (a 2 × a 3 ) (14)∇ = ∑ ia i∂∂ξ = 1 i J∑i∂∂ξ i Jai ,∂J∂ξ l = J ∑ ia i · ∂a i∂ξ l (15)∂a i∂ξ l = − ∑ s(a i · ∂a s∂ξ l )as ,∂x∂t = − ∑ i(See the appendix <strong>for</strong> detail pro<strong>of</strong>) The original MMPEDa i∂ξ i∂t(16)can be trans<strong>for</strong>med intoor in a fully non-conservative <strong>for</strong>mτ ∂⃗x∂t = p[∑ i,j∂ξ i∂t = p τ ∇ · (G−1 ∇ξ i ), i = 1, 2, 3 (17)τ ∂⃗x∂t = − p J∑ ∂a ii,j∂ξ j (Jaj · G −1 a i ) (18)(a i · G −1 a j ∂⃗x)∂ξ i ∂ξ − ∑ j i,j(a i · ∂G−1∂ξ j a j )∂⃗x∂ξ i ] (19)And if we take Winslow’s monitor function G = ωI, where ω = √ 1 + β 2 u 2 x, the final MMPDEisτ ∂x∂t = p ∑(a i · a j ) ∂ ∂x(ωω 2 ∂ξi ∂ξ ) (20)ji,jOur motivation <strong>for</strong> choosing p is to make the MMPDE behave similarly to a simplediffusion equation, hence here we setp = µω 2 /λ, (21)here λ is the largest eigenvalue <strong>of</strong> the positive-define matrix A = (A i,j ) = (a i · a j )Since period boundary conditions are the most commonly used in phase-field simulations,we discuss an implementation <strong>of</strong> the periodic boundary conditions <strong>for</strong> the MMPDEs. We6

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