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Based on relative energy estimates, we study the stability of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with concentration dependent mobility with respect to perturbations. As a by-product of our analysis, we obtain a weak-strong uniqueness…
In this work, we mainly present the optimal convergence rates of the temporally second-order finite element scheme for solving the electrohydrodynamic equation. Suffering from the highly coupled nonlinearity, the convergence analysis of the…
In this paper, based on a generalized scalar auxiliary variable approach with relaxation (R-GSAV), we construct a class of high-order backward differentiation formula (BDF) schemes with variable time steps for the…
We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation with standard double-well potential. We employ a prototypical class of first order in time semi-implicit methods with implicit treatment of the linear dissipation term and explicit extrapolation of the…
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…
Typically when a semi-discrete approximation to a partial differential equation (PDE) is constructed a discretization of the spatial operator with a truncation error $\tau$ is derived. This discrete operator should be semi-bounded for the…
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…
This paper addresses the challenging numerical simulation of nonlinear hybrid stochastic functional differential equations with infinite delays. We first propose an explicit scheme using space and time truncation, requiring only finite…
Phase-field model is a powerful mathematical tool to study the dynamics of interface and morphology changes in fluid mechanics and material sciences. However, numerically solving a phase field model for a real problem is a challenge task…
In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main challenge of constructing numerical schemes with unconditional energy stabilities for this model is how to design proper temporal…
This paper deals with time stepping schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with three different types of dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed schemes of first and second order are mass-conservative and energy-dissipative and -- as…
In the present work, we address a class of Cahn-Hilliard equations characterized by a nonlinear diffusive dynamics and possibly containing an additional sixth order term. This model describes the separation properties of oil-water mixtures,…
This is one of our series works on discrete energy analysis of the variable-step BDF schemes. In this part, we present stability and convergence analysis of the third-order BDF (BDF3) schemes with variable steps for linear diffusion…
We present new linear energy-stable numerical schemes for numerical simulation of complex polymer-solvent mixtures. The mathematical model proposed by Zhou, Zhang and E (Physical Review E 73, 2006) consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation…
For the time-fractional phase field models, the corresponding energy dissipation law has not been settled on both the continuous level and the discrete level. In this work, we shall address this open issue. More precisely, we prove for the…
Exponential time differencing methods is a power tool for high-performance numerical simulation of computationally challenging problems in condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, chemical and biological physics, where mathematical models…
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…
A fully discrete implicit scheme is proposed for the Swift-Hohenberg model, combining the third-order backward differentiation formula (BDF3) for the time discretization and the second-order finite difference scheme for the space…
This paper presents the convergence analysis of the spatial finite difference method (FDM) for the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation with Lipschitz nonlinearity and multiplicative noise. Based on fine estimates of the discrete Green…
We propose a novel decoupled unconditionally stable numerical scheme for the simulation of two-phase flow in a Hele-Shaw cell which is governed by the Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw system (CHHS) with variable viscosity. The temporal…