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In combination with the Grenander--Szeg\"o theorem, we observe that a relaxed positivity condition on multipliers, milder than the basic %fundamental requirement of the Nevanlinna--Odeh multipliers that the sum of the absolute values of…
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 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 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…
The $p$-step backwards difference formula (BDF) for solving the system of ODEs can result in a kind of all-at-once linear systems, which are solved via the parallel-in-time preconditioned Krylov subspace solvers (see McDonald, Pestana, and…
Singular source terms in sub-diffusion equations may lead to the unboundedness of solutions, which will bring a severe reduction of convergence order of existing time-stepping schemes. In this work, we propose two efficient time-stepping…
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 $H^{-\alpha}$,…
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…
In this paper, we present and analyze a linear fully discrete second order scheme with variable time steps for the phase field crystal equation. More precisely, we construct a linear adaptive time stepping scheme based on the second order…
Anomalous diffusion in the presence or absence of an external force field is often modelled in terms of the fractional evolution equations, which can involve the hyper-singular source term. For this case, conventional time stepping methods…
The two-step backward differential formula (BDF2) with unequal time-steps is applied to construct an energy stable convex-splitting scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard model. We focus on the numerical influences of time-step variations by using…
Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) using Backward Difference formula (BDF) methods with p backward steps achieves order p accuracy if specific conditions are met. This work extends the composition technique with complex…
Fractional differential equations (FDEs) are an extension of the theory of fractional calculus. However, due to the difficulty in finding analytical solutions, there have not been extensive applications of FDEs until recent decades. With…
In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable numerical scheme for the square phase field crystal (SPFC) equation, a gradient flow modeling crystal dynamics at the atomic scale in space but on diffusive scales in time. In…
Recently, a new class of BDF schemes proposed in [F. Huang and J. Shen, SIAM J Numer. Anal., 62.4, 1609--1637] for the parabolic type equations are studied in this paper. The basic idea is based on the Taylor expansions at time…
This paper is devoted to the investigation of the backward problem for a multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation. Backward problems for fractional diffusion equations are typically studied using regularization methods due to their…
In this paper, we derive two bound-preserving and mass-conserving schemes based on the fractional-step method and high-order compact (HOC) finite difference method for nonlinear convection-dominated diffusion equations. We split the…
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…
We propose a novel class of temporal high-order parametric finite element methods for solving a wide range of geometric flows of curves and surfaces. By incorporating the backward differentiation formulae (BDF) for time discretization into…
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…