Abstract
We study a fourth-order, singular, nonlinear PDE model for surface relaxation. A weak solution for the model is defined using an inequality formulation. A numerical scheme based on semi-implicit time stepping, mixed finite elements and regularization is proposed to approximate the PDE model. We investigate the convergence of the scheme with respect to the discretization and the regularization parameters. Finally, formal arguments show that the model can be viewed as a gradient flow with respect to an appropriate Riemannian metric.
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