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We prove that the two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) method is stable on arbitrary time grids; while the variable-step BDF3 scheme is stable if almost all adjacent step ratios are less than 2.553. These results relax the…
This is one of our series works on discrete energy analysis of the variable-step BDF schemes. In this part, we present stability and convergence analysis of the third-order BDF (BDF3) schemes with variable steps for linear diffusion…
This paper investigates the long time stability behavior of multiphysics flow problems, namely the Navier-Stokes equations, natural convection and double-diffusive convection equations with an extrapolated blended BDF time-stepping scheme.…
The variable two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) is revisited via a new theoretical framework using the positive semi-definiteness of BDF2 convolution kernels and a class of orthogonal convolution kernels. We prove that, if the…
In this work, we investigate the two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) with nonuniform grids for the Allen-Cahn equation. We show that the nonuniform BDF2 scheme is energy stable under the time-step ratio restriction…
In this paper stability and error estimates for time discretizations of linear and semilinear parabolic equations by the two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) method with variable step-sizes are derived. An affirmative answer is…
We develop in this paper an adaptive time-stepping approach for gradient flows with distinct treatments for conservative and non-conservative dynamics. For the non-conservative gradient flows in Lagrangian coordinates, we propose a modified…
In this work, we analyze the three-step backward differentiation formula (BDF3) method for solving the Allen-Cahn equation on variable grids. For BDF2 method, the discrete orthogonal convolution (DOC) kernels are positive, the stability and…
We propose novel algorithms combining accelerated gradient flows with linearized projection-free treatments of non-convex constraints and BDF pseudo-temporal discretization for quadratic energy minimization. A general framework is developed…
An adaptive BDF2 implicit time-stepping method is analyzed for the phase field crystal model. The suggested method is proved to preserve a modified energy dissipation law at the discrete levels if the time-step ratios…
In this work, we are concerned with the stability and convergence analysis of the second order BDF (BDF2) scheme with variable steps for the molecular beam epitaxial model without slope selection. We first show that the variable-step BDF2…
It is well known that the seven-step backward difference formula (BDF) is unstable for the parabolic equations, since it is not even zero-stable. However, a linear combination of two non zero-stable schemes, namely the seven-step BDF and…
Stability of the BDF methods of order up to five for parabolic equations can be established by the energy technique via Nevanlinna--Odeh multipliers. The nonexistence of Nevanlinna--Odeh multipliers makes the six-step BDF method special;…
In this paper we consider a linearized variable-time-step two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) scheme for solving nonlinear parabolic equations. The scheme is constructed by using the variable time-step BDF2 for the linear term…
High-order time-stepping schemes are crucial for simulating incompressible fluid flows due to their ability to capture complex turbulent behavior and unsteady motion. In this work, we propose a third-order accurate numerical scheme for the…
In this paper, we propose and analyze an efficient implicit--explicit (IMEX) second order in time backward differentiation formulation (BDF2) scheme with variable time steps for gradient flow problems using the scalar auxiliary variable…
We propose a variational form of the BDF2 method as an alternative to the commonly used minimizing movement scheme for the time-discrete approximation of gradient flows in abstract metric spaces. Assuming uniform semi-convexity --- but no…
The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze high-order time stepping schemes for solving semilinear subdiffusion equations. We apply the $k$-step BDF convolution quadrature to discretize the time-fractional derivative with order…
In this paper we propose and analyze a (temporally) third order accurate backward differentiation formula (BDF) numerical scheme for the no-slope-selection (NSS) equation of the epitaxial thin film growth model, with Fourier pseudo-spectral…
An implicit variable-step BDF2 scheme is established for solving the space fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation, involving the fractional Laplacian, derived from a gradient flow in the negative order Sobolev space $H^{-\alpha}$,…