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In this work, we propose a fully discrete energy stable scheme for the phase-field moving contact line model with variable densities and viscosities. The mathematical model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation, a Navier-Stokes equation and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Guangpu Zhu , Huangxin Chen , Aifen Li , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao

We introduce and analyze an explicit time discretization scheme for the one-dimensional stochastic Allen-Cahn, driven by space-time white noise. The scheme is based on a splitting strategy, and uses the exact solution for the nonlinear term…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Ludovic Goudenège

In this paper, we propose a variational Lagrangian scheme for a modified phase-field model, which can compute the equilibrium states for the original Allen-Cahn type model. Our discretization is based on a prescribed energy-dissipation law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang

In this paper, we investigate linear first- and second-order numerical schemes for the Allen--Cahn equation with a general (possibly degenerate) mobility. Compared with existing numerical methods, our schemes employ a novel dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Hongfei Fu , Dianming Hou , Zhonghua Qiao , Bingyin Zhang

In this paper, the mathematical properties and numerical discretizations of multiphase models that simulate the phase separation of an $N$-component mixture are studied. For the general choice of phase variables, the unisolvent property of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a widely used model that describes amongst others phase separation processes of binary mixtures or two-phase flows. In the recent years, different types of boundary conditions for the Cahn--Hilliard equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger

Phase field modelling offers an extremely general framework to predict microstructural evolutions in complex systems. However, its computational implementation requires a discretisation scheme with a grid spacing small enough to preserve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Alphonse Finel , Yann Le Bouar , Benoît Dabas , Benoît Appolaire

Simulation speed depends on code structures, hence it is crucial how to build a fast algorithm. We solve the Allen-Cahn equation by an explicit finite difference method, so it requires grid calculations implemented by many for-loops in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Yongho Kim , Yongho Choi

We consider the identifiability and stable numerical estimation of multiple parameters in a Cahn-Hilliard model for phase separation. Spatially resolved measurements of the phase fraction are assumed to be accessible, with which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

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

Fully-discrete approximations of the Allen-Cahn equation are considered. In particular, we consider schemes of arbitrary order based on a discontinuous Galerkin (in time) approach combined with standard conforming finite elements (in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Konstantinos Chrysafinos

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the commonly used binary fluid-surfactant phase field model that consists two nonlinearly coupled Cahn-Hilliard equations. The main challenge in solving the system numerically is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Xiaofeng Yang

To solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation numerically, a new time integration algorithm is proposed, which is based on a combination of the Eyre splitting and the local iteration modified (LIM) scheme. The latter is employed to tackle the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 M. A. Botchev , I. A. Fahurdinov , E. B. Savenkov

In this paper, we consider a non-linear fourth-order evolution equation of Cahn-Hilliard-type on evolving surfaces with prescribed velocity, where the non-linear terms are only assumed to have locally Lipschitz derivatives. High-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Cedric Aaron Beschle , Balázs Kovács

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Paul J. Strasser , Giordano Tierra , Burkhard Dünweg , Mária Lukáčová-Medvid'ová

In this article, we discuss the stability of soft quasicrystalline phases in a coupled-mode Swift-Hohenberg model for three-component systems, where the characteristic length scales are governed by the positive-definite gradient terms.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-20 Kai Jiang , Jiajun Tong , Pingwen Zhang

The Cahn--Hilliard equations are a versatile model for describing the evolution of complex morphologies. In this paper we present a computational pipeline for the numerical solution of a ternary phase-field model for describing the…

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

In Becker and Jentzen (2019) and Becker et al. (2017), an explicit temporal semi-discretization scheme and a space-time full-discretization scheme were, respectively, introduced and analyzed for the additive noise-driven stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Xiaojie Wang

The paper presents a model of lateral phase separation in a two component material surface. The resulting fourth order nonlinear PDE can be seen as a Cahn-Hilliard equation posed on a time-dependent surface. Only elementary tangential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Vladimir Yushutin , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii