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Results are presented from numerical experiments aiming at the computation of stochastic phase-field models for phase transformations by coarse-graining molecular dynamics. The studied phase transformations occur between a solid crystal and…

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We formulate a finite-size particle numerical model of strongly magnetized plasmas in the drift-kinetic approximation. We use the phase space action as an alternative to previous variational formulations based on Low's Lagrangian or on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 E. G. Evstatiev

In this paper, we propose a quadratic reformulation theory for rational-like functions. Based on this theory, we develop the Quadratic Conservation Elevation (QCE) method, which combines the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) method with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Fei Xie , Nan Lu , Yajuan Sun

We propose a novel structure preserving discretization for viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics. We follow the recent line of work on discrete least action principle for fluid and plasma equation, incorporating the recent advances to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Valentin Carlier

We propose a new Cahn-Hilliard phase field model coupled to incompressible viscoelasticity at large strains, obtained from a diffuse interface mixture model and formulated in the Eulerian configuration. A new kind of diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Abramo Agosti , Pierluigi Colli , Harald Garcke , Elisabetta Rocca

We study the numerical solution of a Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn system with strong coupling through state and gradient dependent non-diagonal mobility matrices. A fully discrete approximation scheme in space and time is proposed which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich

This paper tackles the approximation of surface diffusion flow using a Cahn--Hilliard-type model. We introduce and analyze a new second order variational phase field model which associates the classical Cahn--Hilliard energy with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou , Arnaud Sengers , Garry Terii

In this paper, we propose and analyze a time-stepping method for the time fractional Allen-Cahn equation. The key property of the proposed method is its unconditional stability for general meshes, including the graded mesh commonly used for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Dianming Hou , Chuanju Xu

In this paper, we propose a high-order energy-conserving semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin(ECSLDG) method for the Vlasov-Ampere system. The method employs a semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin scheme for spatial discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Xiaofeng Cai , Qingtao Li , Hongtao Liu , Haibiao Zheng

We present a paradigm for developing arbitrarily high order, linear, unconditionally energy stable numerical algorithms for gradient flow models. We apply the energy quadratization (EQ) technique to reformulate the general gradient flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Yuezheng Gong , Jia Zhao , Qi Wang

A variational principle for two-fluid mixtures is proposed. The Lagrangian is constructed as the difference between the kinetic energy of the mixture and a thermodynamic potential conjugated to the internal energy with respect to the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-02-06 Sergey Gavrilyuk , Henri Gouin , Yurii Perepechko

We present a natural framework for constructing energy-stable time discretization schemes. By leveraging the Onsager principle, we demonstrate its efficacy in formulating partial differential equation models for diverse gradient flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Huangxin Chen , Hailiang Liu , Xianmin Xu

Given a fluid equation with reduced Lagrangian $l$ which is a functional of velocity $\MM{u}$ and advected density $D$ given in Eulerian coordinates, we give a general method for semidiscretising the equations to give a canonical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Colin Cotter

We present an energy-preserving mechanic formulation for dynamic quasi-brittle fracture in an Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation, where a second-order phase-field equation controls the damage evolution. The numerical formulation adapts in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Nicolas A. Labanda , Luis Espath , Victor Manuel Calo

In this paper, a thermal-dynamical consistent model for mass transfer across permeable moving interfaces is proposed by using the energy variation method. We consider a restricted diffusion problem where the flux across the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Yuzhe Qin , Huaxiong Huang , Yi Zhu , Chun Liu , Shixin Xu

The classic second-order average vector field (AVF) method can exactly preserve the energy for Hamiltonian ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. However, the AVF method inevitably leads to fully-implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Wenjun Cai , Haochen Li , Yushun Wang

Numerical simulations of the air in the atmosphere and water in the oceans are essential for numerical weather prediction. The state-of-the-art for performing these fluid simulations relies on an Eulerian viewpoint, in which the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Philip Caplan , Otis Milliken , Toby Pouler , Zeyi Tong , Col McDermott , Sam Millay

We present and analyze an unconditionally energy stable and convergent finite difference scheme for the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation. One key difficulty associated with the energy stability is based on the fact that one nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Wenqiang Feng , Zhen Guan , John Lowengrub , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

In this paper, we introduce a Lagrange multiplier approach to construct linearly implicit energy-preserving schemes of arbitrary order for general Hamiltonian PDEs. Unlike the widely used auxiliary variable methods, this novel approach does…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yonghui Bo , Yushun Wang