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In this work, we develop a class of up to third-order energy-stable schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation. Building on Lawson's integrating factor Runge--Kutta method, which is widely used for stiff semilinear equations, we discuss its…

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We propose some finite element schemes to solve a class of fourth-order nonlinear PDEs, which include the vector-valued Landau--Lifshitz--Baryakhtar equation, the Swift--Hohenberg equation, and various Cahn--Hilliard-type equations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang

We construct a fully discrete numerical scheme that is linear, decoupled, and unconditionally energy stable, and analyze its optimal error estimates for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. For time discretization, we employ the two…

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In this paper, we develop a first order (in time) numerical scheme for the binary fluid surfactant phase field model. The free energy contains a double-well potential, a nonlinear coupling entropy and a Flory-Huggins potential. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Yuzhe Qin , Cheng Wang , Zhengru Zhang

The two-phase Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard (NSCH) mixture model is a key framework for simulating multiphase flows with non-matching densities. Developing fully discrete, energy-stable schemes for this model remains challenging, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Marco F. P. ten Eikelder

We introduce a hybrid method to couple continuous Galerkin finite element methods and high-order finite difference methods in a nonconforming multiblock fashion. The aim is to optimize computational efficiency when complex geometries are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Tuan Anh Dao , Ken Mattsson , Murtazo Nazarov

In this paper, we propose a first order energy stable linear semi-implicit method for solving the Allen-Cahn-Ohta-Kawasaki equation. By introducing a new nonlinear term in the Ohta-Kawasaki free energy functional, all the system forces in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Xiang Xu , Yanxiang Zhao

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes in mixtures of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Stefan Metzger

We present an optimal rate convergence analysis for a second order accurate in time, fully discrete finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system, combined with logarithmic Flory-Huggins energy potential. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Wenbin Chen , Jianyu Jing , Qianqian Liu , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang

When nonconforming discontinuous Galerkin methods are implemented for hyperbolic equations using quadrature, exponential energy growth can result even when the underlying scheme with exact integration does not support such growth. Using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox

The Allen-Cahn equation is a fundamental model for phase transitions, offering critical insights into the dynamics of interface evolution in various physical systems. This paper investigates the stability and robustness of frequently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Wenrui Hao , Sun Lee , Xiaofeng Xu , Zhiliang Xu

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving space-time variational discretization method for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system. Uniqueness and stability for the discrete problem is established in the presence of concentration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

In this article, the energy stability of two high-order L2 schemes for time-fractional phase-field equations is established. We propose a reformulation of the L2 operator and also some new properties on it. We prove the energy boundedness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Chaoyu Quan , Boyi Wang

We propose a new fully-discretized finite difference scheme for a quantum diffusion equation, in both one and two dimensions. This is the first fully-discretized scheme with proven positivity-preserving and energy stable properties using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Xiaokai Huo , Hailiang Liu

In this paper, we present first-order accurate numerical methods for solution of the heat equation with uncertain temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. Each algorithm yields a shared coefficient matrix for the ensemble set improving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 J. A. Fiordilino , M. Winger

We study the numerical solution of a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn system with strong coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices. A fully discrete approximation scheme in space and time is proposed which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Minqiang Xu , Hailong Guo , Qingsong Zou

We present a fully-coupled, implicit-in-time framework for solving a thermodynamically-consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes system that models two-phase flows. In this work, we extend the block iterative method presented in Khanwale et…