Exponential stability of a traveling wave for an area preserving curvature motion with two endpoints moving freely on a line

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Shimojo, Masahiko^a | Kagaya, Takashi^{b; *}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Applied Mathematics, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan | [b] Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Takashi Kagaya, Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan. E-mail: kagaya.t.aa@m.titech.ac.jp.

Abstract: The asymptotic behavior of solutions to an area-preserving curvature flow of planar curves in the upper half plane is investigated. Two endpoints of the curve slide along the horizontal axis with prescribed fixed contact angles. First, by establishing an isoperimetric inequality, we prove the global existence of the solution. We then study the asymptotic behavior of solutions with concave initial data near a traveling wave.

Keywords: curvature flow, free boundary problem, motion of planar curves, area-preserving, isoperimetric ratio, traveling wave

DOI: 10.3233/ASY-151335

Journal: Asymptotic Analysis, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 109-134, 2016