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On the energy stability of Strang-splitting for Cahn-Hilliard

Numerical Analysis 2021-07-13 v1 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider a Strang-type second order operator-splitting discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We introduce a new theoretical framework and prove uniform energy stability of the numerical solution and persistence of all higher Sobolev norms. This is the first strong stability result for second order operator-splitting methods for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In particular we settle several long-standing open issues in the work of Cheng, Kurganov, Qu and Tang \cite{Tang15}.

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@article{arxiv.2107.05349,
  title  = {On the energy stability of Strang-splitting for Cahn-Hilliard},
  author = {Dong Li and Chaoyu Quan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.05349},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2107.01418