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In this paper, we present several unconditionally energy-stable invariant energy quadratization (IEQ) finite element methods (FEMs) with linear, first- and second-order accuracy for solving both the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the Allen-Cahn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Yaoyao Chen , Hailiang Liu , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

We consider a class of second-order Strang splitting methods for Allen-Cahn equations with polynomial or logarithmic nonlinearities. For the polynomial case both the linear and the nonlinear propagators are computed explicitly. We show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan , Jiao Xu

A time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation with volume constraint is first proposed by introducing a nonlocal time-dependent Lagrange multiplier. Adaptive linear second-order energy stable schemes are developed for the proposed model by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Bingquan Ji , Hong-lin Liao , Yuezheng Gong , Luming Zhang

A high-order numerical method is developed for solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with the Flory-Huggins potential. The scheme is based on the $Q_k$ finite element with mass lumping on rectangular grids, the second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Sayantan Sarkar

We study the systematic numerical approximation of a class of Allen-Cahn type problems modeling the motion of phase interfaces. The common feature of these models is an underlying gradient flow structure which gives rise to a decay of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Anke Böttcher , Herbert Egger

In this paper an iterative minimization method is proposed to approximate the minimizer to the double-well energy functional arising in the phase-field theory. The method is based on a quadratic functional posed over a nonempty closed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Qian Zhang , Long Chen , Yifeng Xu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Xiaofeng Yang

In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting technique of the energy functional. For the non-stochastic case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Hui Zhang

It is well known that the exponential time differencing (ETD) method has been successfully applied to the classic Cahn-Hilliard equation with double well potential. However, this numerical method can not be extended to the Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yingying Wang , Xiao Li , Zhengru Zhang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Haifeng Wang , Jingwei Sun , Hong Zhang , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

In this work, we propose a Crank-Nicolson-type scheme with variable steps for the time fractional Allen-Cahn equation. The proposed scheme is shown to be unconditionally stable (in a variational energy sense), and is maximum bound…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Hong-lin Liao , Tao Tang , Tao Zhou

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Bingyin Zhang , Hongfei Fu

In this paper, we present an efficient energy stable scheme to solve a phase field model incorporating contact line condition. Instead of the usually used Cahn-Hilliard type phase equation, we adopt the Allen-Cahn type phase field model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Rui Chen , Xiaofeng Yang , Hui Zhang

We present error estimates for four unconditionally energy stable numerical schemes developed for solving Allen-Cahn equations with nonlocal constraints. The schemes are linear and second order in time and space, designed based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Shouwen Sun , Xiaobo Jing , Qi Wang

We propose and analyse new stabilized time marching schemes for Phase Fields model such as Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hillard equations, when discretized in space with high order finite differences compact schemes. The stabilization applies to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Matthieu Brachet , Jean-Paul Chehab

In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of a binary fluid-surfactant phase field model, in which the free energy contains a nonlinear coupling entropy, a Ginzburg-Landau double well potential, and a logarithmic Flory-Huggins…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Xiaofeng Yang , Lili Ju

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with hyperbolic relaxation. This type of equations processes energy-dissipative structure. The main challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

The space nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation is a famous example of fractional reaction-diffusion equations. It is also an extension of the classical Allen-Cahn equation, which is widely used in physics to describe the phenomenon of two-phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Yuxin Zhang , Hengfei Ding

Implicit-Explicit methods have been widely used for the efficient numerical simulation of phase field problems such as the Cahn-Hilliard equation or thin film type equations. Due to the lack of maximum principle and stiffness caused by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Dong Li , Tao Tang

The Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins potential serves as a fundamental phase field model for describing phase separation phenomena. Due to the presence of logarithmic singularities at $u=\pm 1$, the solution $u$ is constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ruo Li , Shengtong Liang , Zhonghua Qiao