Paper · Jun 30, 2026
Convergence of a minimizing movement scheme for contact-angle mean curvature flow in a smooth bounded domain
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Abstract
This paper studies a Chambolle-type minimizing movement scheme for mean curvature flow with prescribed contact angle in a smooth bounded domain. The scheme is based on the capillary functional and the geodesic signed distance relative to the container, and yields a time-discrete level-set approximation. The main result asserts that, for every Lipschitz-continuous boundary function prescribing a strictly nondegenerate contact angle, the approximate solutions converge locally uniformly to the unique viscosity solution of the corresponding level-set mean curvature equation with oblique derivative boundary condition. This improves a previous convergence theorem, where the container was assumed to be convex and a curvature-type condition relating the tangential derivative of the prescribed contact-angle function to the principal curvatures of the container boundary was imposed. The main new ingredient is a uniform Lipschitz estimate for the solutions of the variational problems defining the scheme. This estimate is derived by applying a Bernstein-type argument to a suitable weighted gradient, rather than to the gradient itself, which rules out boundary maxima without relying on the previous curvature-type condition.
Comments: 27 pages; the acknowledgment by T. E. has been added
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