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In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting technique of the energy functional. For the non-stochastic case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Hui Zhang

We develop a linear fully discrete structure-preserving finite element method for a diffuse-interface model of tumour growth. The system couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation with a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation for nutrient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Agus L. Soenjaya , Ping Lin , Thanh Tran

We present a novel spatial discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation including transport. The method is given by a mixed discretization for the two elliptic operators, with the phase field and chemical potential discretized in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Golo A. Wimmer , Ben S. Southworth , Qi Tang

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is a fundamental model for describing phase separation phenomena in binary mixtures. Traditional numerical methods, such as finite difference and finite element methods, often incur substantial computational cost,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Liu , Shuting Gu

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is related with a number of interesting physical phenomena like the spinodal decomposition, phase separation and phase ordering dynamics. On the other hand this equation is very stiff an the difficulty to solve it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. L. de Mello , Otton Teixeira da Silveira Filho

In this article we propose two finite element schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations, based on a reformulation that involves differential operators from the de Rham sequence and an advection operator with explicit skew-symmetry in weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos Pinto , Francesco Fambri

A proof of optimal-order error estimates is given for the full discretization of the bulk--surface Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The numerical method combines a linear bulk--surface finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Nils Bullerjahn

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

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

Two-fluid relativistic plasma flow equations combine the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields, which involve divergence constraints for the magnetic and electric fields. When developing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jaya Agnihotri , Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar , Dinshaw S. Balsara

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

We consider structure-preserving methods for conservative systems, which rigorously replicate the conservation property yielding better numerical solutions. There, corresponding to the skew-symmetry of the differential operator, that of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Daisuke Furihata , Shun Sato , Takayasu Matsuo

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

The Cahn-Hilliard equation has a wide range of applications in many areas of physics and chemistry. To describe the short-range interaction between the solution and the boundary, scientists have constructed dynamical boundary conditions by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Yunzhuo Guo , Cheng Wang , Zhengru Zhang

We present a fully conservative, skew-symmetric finite difference scheme on transformed grids. The skew-symmetry preserves the kinetic energy by first principles, simultaneously avoiding a central instability mechanism and numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-02 Julius Reiss , Jörn Sesterhenn

Finite difference schemes that preserve two conservation laws of a given partial differential equation can be found directly by a recently-developed symbolic approach. Until now, this has been used only for equations with quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Gianluca Frasca-Caccia , Peter E. Hydon

In this paper, we introduce second order and fourth order space discretization via finite difference implementation of the finite element method for solving Fokker-Planck equations associated with irreversible processes. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Chen Liu , Yuan Gao , Xiangxiong Zhang

We propose a structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard equations with degenerate mobility based on the Symmetric Weighted Interior Penalty formulation. By evaluating the mobility at cell averages rather than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jimmy Kornelije Gunnarsson , Robert Klöfkorn

This paper introduces a novel approach for the construction of bulk--surface splitting schemes for semi-linear parabolic partial differential equations with dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed construction is based on a reformulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 R. Altmann , C. Zimmer