Willmore Flow in the radially symmetric case
A long straight tube becomes temporarily non-convex
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Scale: Radius of end cap = 1, straight part in middle = 4. Time step = 10-5. Spatial resolution of generating curve = 0.01-0.05. System: Toshiba 4015CDT Laptop with an Intel Pentium II 266 MHz. Computation time: About 12 minutes.

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Posted on: Tue Apr 10 12:12:06 PDT 2001
Last updated: Thu Apr 12 09:23:50 PDT 2001