Willmore Flow in the radially symmetric case
A torus evolves into a stationary Willmore torus
(Graphics show half of the surface of revolution)
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Time units elapsed:

Scale: Major radius = 5, minor radius = 2. Time step = 10-3. Spatial resolution of generating curve = 0.01-0.05. System: Toshiba 4015CDT Laptop with an Intel Pentium II 266 MHz. Computation time: About 53 minutes.


[leftarrow] Back mayer@math.utah.edu
Posted on: Tue Apr 10 12:10:30 PDT 2001