In this paper, we review some recent progress made in [4, 5, 6] on finite difference schemes for viscous incompressible flows using vorticity formulation. The main purpose of this series of papers [4, 5, 6] is to resurrect the idea of using local vorticity boundary condition for unsteady calculation. The emphasis is on simplicity of the methods. Three main issues will be discussed: efficient time-stepping procedures and cell Reynolds number constraints, efficient methods in 3D on non-staggered grids and efficient high order methods using compact differencing.

Let X be a compact quotient of the product of the real Heisenberg group H _4m+1 of dimension 4m + 1 and the three-dimensional real Euclidean space R ³ . A left-invariant hypercomplex structure on H _4m+1 R ³ descends onto the compact quotient X. The space X is a hyperholomorphic fibration of 4-tori over a 4m-torus. We calculate the parameter space and obstructions to deformations of this hypercomplex structure on X. Using our calculations, we show that all small deformations generate invariant hypercomplex structures on X but not all of them arise from deformations of the lattice. This is in contrast to the deformations on the 4m-torus.

The curvature estimates for k curvature equations with general right-hand sides is a longstanding problem. In this paper, we completely solve the problem when k . We also discuss some applications of our estimates.

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In this paper we introduce the hyperbolic mean curvature flow and prove that the corresponding system of partial differential equations is strictly hyperbolic, and based on this, we show that this flow admits a unique short-time smooth solution and possesses the nonlinear stability defined on the Euclidean space with dimension larger than 4. We derive nonlinear wave equations satisfied by some geometric quantities related to the hyperbolic mean curvature flow. Moreover, we also discuss the relation between the equations for hyperbolic mean curvature flow and the equations for extremal surfaces in the Minkowski spacetime.