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Answer by Arctic Char for How to evolve a star-shaped mean convex set to a strictly mean convex set?

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Represent $\partial \Omega$ as an embedding $F:\mathbb S^2 \to \mathbb R^3$ and consider the mean curvature flow $\{F_t :\mathbb S^2 \to \mathbb R^3: t\in [0,T)\}$, which is a family of embeddings so that

$$\frac{\partial F}{\partial t} = H_t v_t,.$$

where $v_t$ is the inward unit normal of the embedding $F_t$. Since $\mathbb S^2$ is compact, the solution exist for short time $T$. The evolution of $H$ is given by

$$\frac{\partial H}{\partial t} = \Delta H + |A|^2 H.$$

The strong maximum principle implies that $H>0$ when $t>0$.


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