A rigorous setting for the reinitialization of first order level set equations

作者：Hamamuki Nao^*; Ntovoris Eleftherios

来源：INTERFACES AND FREE BOUNDARIES, 2016, 18(4): 579-621.

DOI：10.4171/IFB/374

• Viscosity solutions
• level set equations
• distance function
• reinitialization
• homogenization

In this paper we set up a rigorous justification for the reinitialization algorithm. Using the theory of viscosity solutions, we propose a well-posed Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a parameter, which is derived from homogenization for a Hamiltonian discontinuous in time which appears in the reinitialization. We prove that, as the parameter tends to infinity, the solution of the initial value problem converges to a signed distance function to the evolving interfaces. A locally uniform convergence is shown when the distance function is continuous, whereas a weaker notion of convergence is introduced to establish a convergence result to a possibly discontinuous distance function. In terms of the geometry of the interfaces, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the continuity of the distance function. We also propose another simpler equation whose solution has a gradient bound away from zero.

• 出版日期2016