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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

It is well-known that the Allen-Cahn equation not only satisfies the energy dissipation law but also possesses the maximum bound principle (MBP) in the sense that the absolute value of its solution is pointwise bounded for all time by some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Lili Ju , Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao

In this paper, we present a novel strategy to systematically construct linearly implicit energy-preserving schemes with arbitrary order of accuracy for Hamiltonian PDEs. Such novel strategy is based on the newly developed exponential scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Yonghui Bo , Yushun Wang , Wenjun Cai

We describe and analyze a finite element numerical scheme for the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel model. The scalar auxiliary variable method is used to retrieve the monotonic decay of the energy associated with the system at the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Alexandre Poulain

We present a framework for devising discretely energy-stable schemes for general dissipative systems based on a generalized auxiliary variable. The auxiliary variable, a scalar number, can be defined in terms of the energy functional by a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Zhiguo Yang , Suchuan Dong

In this paper, two efficient and magnetization norm preserving numerical schemes based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method are developed for calculating the ground state in micromagnetic structures. The first SAV scheme is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jiayun He , Lei Yang , Jiajun Zhan

In this paper, we develop a second-order, fully decoupled, and energy-stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model for two phase flow with variable density and viscosity. We propose a new decoupling Constant Scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Jinpeng Zhang , Li Luo , Xiaoping Wang

We construct efficient implicit-explicit BDF$k$ scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) schemes for general dissipative systems. We show that these schemes are unconditionally stable, and lead to a uniform bound of the numerical solution in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Fukeng Huang , Jie Shen

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for solving the inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By utilizing the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach for dealing with the convective and coupling terms, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Xiaodi Zhang , Xianghai Zhou

In this paper, we propose a regularized auxiliary variable (RAV) approach and construct accurate and robust time-discrete schemes for a large class of gradient flows. By introducing an auxiliary variable $r=0$ and constructing an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

Consistent splitting schemes are among the most accurate pressure segregation methods, incurring no splitting errors or spurious boundary conditions. Nevertheless, their theoretical properties are not yet fully understood, especially when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Douglas R. Q. Pacheco

In this paper, we propose and analyze a linear, structure-preserving scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for solving the Allen--Cahn equation based on the second-order backward differentiation formula (BDF2) with variable time steps. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Bingyin Zhang , Hongfei Fu , Rihui Lan , Shusen Xie

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 paper, for the first time we propose two linear, decoupled, energy-stable numerical schemes for multi-component two-phase compressible flow with a realistic equation of state (e.g. Peng-Robinson equation of state). The methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Xiuhua Wang

The optimal error estimate that depending only on the polynomial degree of $ \varepsilon^{-1}$ is established for the temporal semi-discrete scheme of the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which is based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Shu Ma , Weifeng Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

In this paper, we present a second order, linear, fully decoupled, and unconditionally energy stable scheme for solving the Erickson-Leslie model. This approach integrates the pressure correction method with a scalar auxiliary variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Ruonan Cao , Nianyu Yi

We propose a new Lagrange Multiplier approach to design unconditional energy stable schemes for gradient flows. The new approach leads to unconditionally energy stable schemes that are as accurate and efficient as the recently proposed SAV…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Qing Cheng , Chun Liu , Jie Shen

In this paper, we consider a second-order scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) Fourier spectral method to solve the nonlinear fractional generalized wave equation. Unconditional energy conservation or dissipation properties of the fully discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Nan Wang , Meng Li , Chengming Huang

Comparing with the classical local gradient flow and phase field models, the nonlocal models such as nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations equipped with nonlocal diffusion operator can describe more practical phenomena for modeling phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Zhengguang liu , Aijie Cheng , Xiaoli Li

We present several first-order and second-order numerical schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with discrete unconditional energy stability. These schemes stem from the generalized Positive Auxiliary Variable (gPAV) idea, and require only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Yanxia Qian , Zhiguo Yang , Fei Wang , Suchuan Dong