A priori error estimates for finite element approximations of regularized level set flows in higher norms

This paper proves error estimates for $H^2$ conforming finite elements for equations which model the flow of surfaces by different powers of the mean curvature (this includes mean curvature flow). for an adapted scheme originally proposed in [17] for the inverse mean curvature flow. The scheme is based on a known regularization procedure and produces different kinds of errors, a regularization error, a finite element discretization error for the regularized problems and a full error. While in the literature and own previous work different aspects of the aforementioned error types are treated, here, we solely and for the first time focus on the finite element discretization error in the $W^{2,\mu}$ norm for the regularized equation analyzing also the dependencies from the regularization parameter.