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In this paper, we construct and analyze a uniquely solvable, positivity preserving and unconditionally energy stable finite-difference scheme for the periodic three-component Macromolecular Microsphere Composite (MMC) hydrogels system, a…
In this paper, we establish a novel approach to proving existence of non-negative weak solutions for degenerate parabolic equations of fourth order, like the Cahn-Hilliard and certain thin film equations. The considered evolution equations…
In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for solving the nonlinear magneto-hydrodynamical system, that couples the Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell equations together. A challenging issue to solve this model numerically is…
In this paper we propose a solution strategy for the Cahn-Larch\'e equations, which is a model for linearized elasticity in a medium with two elastic phases that evolve subject to a Ginzburg-Landau type energy functional. The system can be…
We explore a class of splitting schemes employing implicit-explicit (IMEX) time-stepping to achieve accurate and energy-stable solutions for thin-film equations and Cahn-Hilliard models with variable mobility. This splitting method…
We present a systematical approach to developing arbitrarily high order, unconditionally energy stable numerical schemes for thermodynamically consistent gradient flow models that satisfy energy dissipation laws. Utilizing the energy…
The nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard (NCH) equation with nonlocal diffusion operator is more suitable for the simulation of microstructure phase transition than the local Cahn-Hilliard (LCH) equation. In this paper, based on the exponential…
We introduce a family of fourth order two-step methods that preserve the energy function of canonical polynomial Hamiltonian systems. Each method in the family may be viewed as a correction of a linear two-step method, where the correction…
We consider a nonlinear variational wave equation that models the dynamics of the director field in nematic liquid crystals with high molecular rotational inertia. Being derived from an energy principle, energy stability is an intrinsic…
In this paper, a non-uniform time-stepping convex-splitting numerical algorithm for solving the widely used time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation is introduced. The proposed numerical scheme employs the $L1^+$ formula for discretizing the…
This paper is devoted to the analysis of an energy-stable discontinuous Galerkin algorithm for solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations within a decoupled splitting framework. We show that the proposed scheme is uniquely solvable…
In this contribution, we study an optimal control problem for the celebrated nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation endowed with the singular Flory-Huggins potential in the three-dimensional setting. The control enters the governing state system…
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…
This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…
The positive definiteness of discrete time-fractional derivatives is fundamental to the numerical stability (in the energy sense) for time-fractional phase-field models. A novel technique is proposed to estimate the minimum eigenvalue of…
In this paper, based on the weak form of the Hamiltonian formulation of the regularized long-wave equation and a novel approach of transforming the original Hamiltonian energy into a quadratic functional, a fully implicit and three…
In this article, we present and analyze a finite element numerical scheme for a three-component macromolecular microsphere composite (MMC) hydrogel model, which takes the form of a ternary Cahn-Hilliard-type equation with…
In this paper, we develop a second-order, fully decoupled, and energy-stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model for two phase flow with variable density and viscosity. We propose a new decoupling Constant Scalar…
To describe highly heterogeneous systems using the Cahn-Hilliard equation, the standard form of the thermodynamic potential with a constant coefficient in the gradient term and a polynomial of the fourth degree may not be sufficient. The…
In this paper, we present a class of nonuniform time-stepping, high-order linear stabilized schemes that can preserve both the discrete energy stability and maximum-bound principle (MBP) for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation. To this…