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Mean-Curvature Flow of Voronoi Diagrams

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posted on 2013-08-01, 00:00 authored by Matt Elsey, Dejan SlepcevDejan Slepcev

We study the evolution of grain boundary networks by the mean-curvature flow under the restriction that the networks are Voronoi diagrams for a set of points. For such evolution we prove a rigorous universal upper bound on the coarsening rate. The rate agrees with the rate predicted for the evolution by mean-curvature flow of the general grain boundary networks, namely that the typical grain area grows linearly in time. We perform a numerical simulation which provides evidence that the dynamics achieves the rate of coarsening that agrees with the upper bound in terms of scaling.

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00332-014-9221-x

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2013-08-01

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