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We focus on the numerical approximation of the Cahn-Hilliard type equations, and present a family of second-order unconditionally energy-stable schemes. By reformulating the equation into an equivalent system employing a scalar auxiliary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-19 Suchuan Dong , Zhiguo Yang , Lianlei Lin

We present a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for simulating fluid transport across semi-permeable membranes, with a particular focus on osmotic pressure effects. The model extends the classical Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ruihan Guo , Jie Shen , Shixin Xu , Xianmin Xu

For high order (than two) in time operator-splitting methods applied to dissipative systems, a folklore issue is the appearance of negative-time/backward-in-time linear evolution operators such as backward heat operators interwoven with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan

Recent applications (e.g. active gels and self-assembly of elastic sheets) motivate the need to efficiently simulate the dynamics of thin elastic sheets. We present semi-implicit time stepping algorithms to improve the time step constraints…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Silas Alben , Alex A. Gorodetsky , Donghak Kim , Robert D. Deegan

We introduce a new measure of coarseness for characterizing phase separation processes such as those described by Cahn--Hilliard equations. An advantage of our measure is that it remains consistent throughout the evolution, including for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Peter Howard , Adam Larios , Quyuan Lin

In this work, we introduce new integral formulations based on the convolution quadrature method for the time-domain modeling of perfectly electrically conducting scatterers that overcome some of the most critical issues of the standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Pierrick Cordel , Alexandre Dély , Adrien Merlini , Francesco P. Andriulli

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Tao Tang , Haijun Yu , Tao Zhou

In this work, we present an efficient approach for the spatial and temporal discretization of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation, which incorporates various double-well potentials and an integrable kernel, with a particular focus on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Olena Burkovska , Ilyas Mustapha

A quasi-second order scheme is developed to obtain approximate solutions of the shallow water equationswith bathymetry. The scheme is based on a staggered finite volume scheme for the space discretization:the scalar unknowns are located in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-19 R Herbin , J. -C Latché , Y Nasseri , N Therme

In many applications, the governing PDE to be solved numerically contains a stiff component. When this component is linear, an implicit time stepping method that is unencumbered by stability restrictions is often preferred. On the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Kevin Chow , Steven J. Ruuth

The phase-field method is reviewed from the general perspective of converting a free boundary problem into a set of coupled partial differential equations. Its main advantage is that it avoids front tracking by using phase fields to locate…

In this paper we devise and analyze an unconditionally stable, second-order-in-time numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation in two and three space dimensions. We prove that our two-step scheme is unconditionally energy stable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

This paper proposes an Allen-Cahn Chan-Vese model to settle the multi-phase image segmentation. We first integrate the Allen--Cahn term and the Chan--Vese fitting energy term to establish an energy functional, whose minimum locates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Chaoyu Liu , Zhonghua Qiao , Qian Zhang

In this paper we focus on the Cahn-Hilliard equation with dynamic boundary conditions, by adding two hyperbolic relaxation terms to the system. We verify that the energy of the total system is decreasing with time. By adding two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Minghui Yu , Rui Chen

We consider the stabilisation of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation towards a given trajectory by means of a finite-dimensional static output feedback mechanism. Exponential stabilisation of the controlled state around the target…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Herbert Egger , Marvin Fritz , Karl Kunisch , Sérgio S. Rodrigues

New implicit and implicit-explicit time-stepping methods for the wave equation in second-order form are described with application to two and three-dimensional problems discretized on overset grids. The implicit schemes are single step,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Allison M. Carson , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

This paper is concerned with moving mesh finite difference solution of partial differential equations. It is known that mesh movement introduces an extra convection term and its numerical treatment has a significant impact on the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Weizhang Huang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Xiaoqing Meng , Aijie Cheng , Zhengguang Liu

A stabilized finite element method is introduced for the simulation of time-periodic creeping flows, such as those found in the cardiorespiratory systems. The new technique, which is formulated in the frequency rather than time domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mahdi Esmaily