Stability of a simple scheme for the approximation of elastic knots and self-avoiding inextensible curves

Bartels, Sören; Reiter, Philipp

doi:10.1090/mcom/3633

Stability of a simple scheme for the approximation of elastic knots and self-avoiding inextensible curves

Authors: Sören Bartels and Philipp Reiter
Journal: Math. Comp. 90 (2021), 1499-1526
MSC (2020): Primary 65N12; Secondary 65N15, 65N30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mcom/3633
Published electronically: May 6, 2021
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Abstract:

We discuss a semi-implicit numerical scheme that allows for minimizing the bending energy of curves within certain isotopy classes. To this end we consider a weighted sum of the bending energy and the tangent-point functional.

Based on estimates for the second derivative of the latter and a uniform bi-Lipschitz radius, we prove a stability result implying energy decay during the evolution as well as maintenance of arclength parametrization.

Finally we present some numerical experiments exploring the energy landscape, targeted to the question how to obtain global minimizers of the bending energy in knot classes, so-called elastic knots.

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