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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 and analyzes a novel fully discrete finite element scheme with the interpolation operator for stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equations with functional-type noise. The nonlinear term satisfies a one-side Lipschitz condition and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Yukun Li , Corey Prachniak , Yi Zhang

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

In this paper we propose a time discretization of a system of two parabolic equations describing diffusion-driven atom rearrangement in crystalline matter. The equations express the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Pavel Krejčí , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider a finite element method with symmetric stabilisation for the discretisation of the transient convection--diffusion equation. For the time-discretisation we consider either the second order backwards differentiation formula or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Erik Burman , Johnny Guzman

In this work, we design and analyze semi/fully-discrete virtual element approximations for the time-dependent Navier--Stokes-Cahn--Hilliard equations, modeling the dynamics of two-phase incompressible fluid flows with diffuse interfaces. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alberth Silgado , Giuseppe Vacca

This paper is concerned with minimization of a fourth-order linearized Canham-Helfrich energy subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on curves inside the domain. Such problems arise in the modeling of the mechanical interaction of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Carsten Gräser , Tobias Kies

This work is concerned with quasi-optimal a-priori finite element error estimates for the obstacle problem in the $L^2$-norm. The discrete approximations are introduced as solutions to a finite element discretization of an accordingly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Dominik Hafemeyer , Christian Kahle , Johannes Pfefferer

The study of long-term dynamics for numerical solutions of nonlinear evolution equations, particularly phase field models, has consistently garnered considerable attention. The Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation is one of the most important phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

In this paper, a non-uniform time-stepping convex-splitting numerical algorithm for solving the widely used time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation is introduced. The proposed numerical scheme employs the $L1^+$ formula for discretizing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Jun Zhang , Jia Zhao , JinRong Wang

We present a second-order-in-time finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw equations. This numerical method is uniquely solvable and unconditionally energy stable. At each time step, this scheme leads to a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Wenbin Chen , Wenqiang Feng , Yuan Liu , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

In this paper we investigate the long time stability of the implicit Euler scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with polynomial nonlinearity. The uniform estimates in $H^{-1}$ and $\mathcal H^s_\alpha$ ($s=1,2,3$) spaces independent of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Wansheng Wang

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase segregation processes in binary mixtures. In recent times, various dynamic boundary conditions have been introduced to model interactions of the materials with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

We introduce a coupled Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes model that governs the two-phase dynamics of a system that consists of a fluid and a solid phase and prove its thermodynamic consistency. Moreover, we present an associated fully-discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Cedric Riethmüller , Lars von Wolff , Dominik Göddeke , Christian Rohde

We consider data assimilation for the heat equation using a finite element space semi-discretization. The approach is optimization based, but the design of regularization operators and parameters rely on techniques from the theory of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen

In this work, we propose a structure-preserving discretisation for the recently studied Cahn-Hilliard-Biot system using conforming finite elements in space and problem-adapted explicit-implicit Euler time integration. We prove that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Aaron Brunk , Marvin Fritz

In this paper, we present a novel second order in time mixed finite element scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with matched densities. The scheme combines a standard second order Crank-Nicholson method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Steven M. Wise

The space fractional Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model is more adequate and accurate in the description of the formation and phase change mechanism than the classical Cahn-Hilliard model. In this article, we propose a temporal second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Yong-Liang Zhao , Meng Li , Alexander Ostermann , Xian-Ming Gu

We study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 David O'Connor , Bjorn Stinner

Convergence results for the immersed boundary method applied to a model Stokes problem with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition are presented. As a discretization method, we deal with the finite element method. First, the immersed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Norikazu Saito , Yoshiki Sugitani