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We present and analyze an unconditionally energy stable and convergent finite difference scheme for the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation. One key difficulty associated with the energy stability is based on the fact that one nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Wenqiang Feng , Zhen Guan , John Lowengrub , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

The Reynolds equation, combined with the Elrod algorithm for including the effect of cavitation, resembles a nonlinear convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) equation. Its solution by finite elements is prone to oscillations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Hauke Gravenkamp , Simon Pfeil , Ramon Codina

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

In this work, we propose a mixed finite element method for solving elliptic multiscale problems based on a localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) of Raviart-Thomas finite element spaces. It requires to solve local problems in small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Fredrik Hellman , Patrick Henning , Axel Målqvist

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

The convergence of an adaptive mixed finite element method for general second order linear elliptic problems defined on simply connected bounded polygonal domains is analyzed in this paper. The main difficulties in the analysis are posed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

We propose a new preconditioner for the Ohta--Kawasaki equation, a nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation that describes the evolution of diblock copolymer melts. We devise a computable approximation to the inverse of the Schur complement of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Patrick E. Farrell , John W. Pearson

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Giulio Schimperna , Irena Pawlow

A two-grid scheme based on mixed finite-element approximations to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is introduced and analyzed. In the first level the standard mixed finite-element approximation over a coarse mesh is computed. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Javier de Frutos , Bosco García-Archilla , Julia Novo

The phase separation processes are typically modeled by Cahn-Hilliard equations. This equation was originally introduced to model phase separation in binary alloys, where phase stands for concentration of different components in alloy. When…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Pawan Kumar

This work presents a matrix-free finite element solver for finite-strain elasticity adopting an $hp$-multigrid preconditioner. Compared to classical algorithms relying on a global sparse matrix, matrix-free solution strategies significantly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Richard Schussnig , Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler

We propose a structure-preserving finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a dynamic boundary condition using the discrete variational derivative method (DVDM). In this approach, it is important and essential how to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Makoto Okumura , Takeshi Fukao , Daisuke Furihata , Shuji Yoshikawa

We propose a variational splitting technique for the generalized-$\alpha$ method to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations. We use tensor-product meshes to develop the splitting method, which has a computational cost that grows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Pouria Behnoudfar , Quanling Deng , Victor M. Calo

We develop a cut finite element method for the Darcy problem on surfaces. The cut finite element method is based on embedding the surface in a three dimensional finite element mesh and using finite element spaces defined on the three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

We develop a cut finite element method for a second order elliptic coupled bulk-surface model problem. We prove a priori estimates for the energy and $L^2$ norms of the error. Using stabilization terms we show that the resulting algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

A proof of optimal-order error estimates is given for the full discretization of the Cahn--Hilliard equation with Cahn--Hilliard-type dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The numerical method combines a linear bulk--surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Nils Bullerjahn , Balázs Kovács

We present a multiscale mixed finite element method for solving second order elliptic equations with general $L^{\infty}$-coefficients arising from flow in highly heterogeneous porous media. Our approach is based on a multiscale spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Christian Alber , Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

We present a numerical scheme for solving a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard type equation that captures the dynamics of phase transitions in a ternary mixture consisting of two immiscible fluids and a surface active molecule that is amphiphilic.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Natasha S. Sharma , Giordano Tierra

We propose an explicit construction of Poincar\'e operators for the lowest order finite element spaces, by employing spanning trees in the grid. In turn, a stable decomposition of the discrete spaces is derived that leads to an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Wietse M. Boon