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The operator-splitting method for Cahn-Hilliard is stable

Numerical Analysis 2021-07-06 v1 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove energy stability of a standard operator-splitting method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. We establish uniform bound of Sobolev norms of the numerical solution and convergence of the splitting approximation. This is the first unconditional energy stability result for the operator-splitting method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. Our analysis can be extended to many other models.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01418,
  title  = {The operator-splitting method for Cahn-Hilliard is stable},
  author = {Dong Li and Chaoyu Quan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01418},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages

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