The flexible, extensible and efficient toolbox of level set methods

IM Mitchell - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2008 - Springer
Level set methods are a popular and powerful class of numerical algorithms for dynamic
implicit surfaces and solution of Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs. While the advanced level set …

Convergent difference schemes for degenerate elliptic and parabolic equations: Hamilton--Jacobi equations and free boundary problems

AM Oberman - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2006 - SIAM
Convergent numerical schemes for degenerate elliptic partial differential equations are
constructed and implemented. Simple conditions are identified which ensure that nonlinear …

Convergent finite difference solvers for viscosity solutions of the elliptic Monge–Ampère equation in dimensions two and higher

BD Froese, AM Oberman - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2011 - SIAM
The elliptic Monge–Ampère equation is a fully nonlinear partial differential equation that
originated in geometric surface theory and has been applied in dynamic meteorology …

[PDF][PDF] Wide stencil finite difference schemes for the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation and functions of the eigenvalues of the Hessian

AM Oberman - Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 2008 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Certain fully nonlinear elliptic Partial Differential Equations can be written as functions of the
eigenvalues of the Hessian. These include: the Monge-Ampere equation, Pucci's Maximal …

Mean curvature, threshold dynamics, and phase field theory on finite graphs

Y Van Gennip, N Guillen, B Osting… - Milan Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
In the continuum, close connections exist between mean curvature flow, the Allen-Cahn
(AC) partial differential equation, and the Merriman-Bence-Osher (MBO) threshold dynamics …

Convergent filtered schemes for the Monge--Ampère partial differential equation

BD Froese, AM Oberman - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2013 - SIAM
The theory of viscosity solutions has been effective for representing and approximating weak
solutions to fully nonlinear partial differential equations such as the elliptic Monge--Ampère …

A deterministic‐control‐based approach to fully nonlinear parabolic and elliptic equations

RV Kohn, S Serfaty - Communications on pure and applied …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We show that a broad class of fully nonlinear, second‐order parabolic or elliptic PDEs can
be realized as the Hamilton‐Jacobi‐Bellman equations of deterministic two‐person games …

[HTML][HTML] Finite difference methods for the infinity Laplace and p-Laplace equations

AM Oberman - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2013 - Elsevier
We build convergent discretizations and semi-implicit solvers for the Infinity Laplacian and
the game theoretical p-Laplacian. The discretizations simplify and generalize earlier ones …

Nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations and p-harmonic functions on graphs

JJ Manfredi, AM Oberman… - Differential Integral …, 2015 - projecteuclid.org
In this article, we study the well-posedness (uniqueness and existence of solutions) of
nonlinear elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on a finite graph. These results are …

Total variation and level set methods in image science

YHR Tsai, S Osher - Acta Numerica, 2005 - cambridge.org
We review level set methods and the related techniques that are common in many PDE-
based image models. Many of these techniques involve minimizing the total variation of the …