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In this paper, we consider an exponential scalar auxiliary variable (E-SAV) approach to obtain energy stable schemes for a class of phase field models. This novel auxiliary variable method based on exponential form of nonlinear free energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Zhengguang Liu , Xiaoli Li

We describe and analyze a finite element numerical scheme for the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel model. The scalar auxiliary variable method is used to retrieve the monotonic decay of the energy associated with the system at the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Alexandre Poulain

We propose a new Lagrange Multiplier approach to design unconditional energy stable schemes for gradient flows. The new approach leads to unconditionally energy stable schemes that are as accurate and efficient as the recently proposed SAV…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Qing Cheng , Chun Liu , Jie Shen

This paper proposes a finite element scheme, based on the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) approach, for the Cahn-Hilliard equation--a model that possesses significant physical relevance and a rich mathematical structure. A convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Na Li , Yongchao Zhao

For a class of fourth order gradient flow problems, integration of the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) time discretization with the penalty-free discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spatial discretization leads to SAV-DG schemes. These schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Hailiang Liu , Peimeng Yin

In this paper, we propose a regularized auxiliary variable (RAV) approach and construct accurate and robust time-discrete schemes for a large class of gradient flows. By introducing an auxiliary variable $r=0$ and constructing an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

In this paper, we consider a novel auxiliary variable method to obtain energy stable schemes for gradient flows. The auxiliary variable based on energy bounded above does not limited to the hypothetical conditions adopted in previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Zhengguang Liu

This paper introduces a novel paradigm for constructing linearly implicit and high-order unconditionally energy-stable schemes for general gradient flows, utilizing the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and the additive Runge-Kutta…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Xuelong Gu , Wenjun Cai , Yushun Wang

This paper develops a generalized scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations. The backward Euler is used for discretizing the temporal derivative of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Zhiyong Si

In this paper, we propose and analyze a linear, structure-preserving scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for solving the Allen--Cahn equation based on the second-order backward differentiation formula (BDF2) with variable time steps. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Bingyin Zhang , Hongfei Fu , Rihui Lan , Shusen Xie

A novel numerical strategy is introduced for computing approximations of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard model with degenerate mobilities. This model has recently been introduced as a second-order phase-field approximation for surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Elie Bretin , Luca Calatroni , Simon Masnou

In this paper, we consider a second-order scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) Fourier spectral method to solve the nonlinear fractional generalized wave equation. Unconditional energy conservation or dissipation properties of the fully discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Nan Wang , Meng Li , Chengming Huang

The paper studies a scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method to solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility posed on a smooth closed surface {\Gamma}. The SAV formulation is combined with adaptive time stepping and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Maxim Olshanskii , Yerbol Palzhanov , Annalisa Quaini

We develop several efficient numerical schemes which preserve exactly the global constraints for constrained gradient flows. Our schemes are based on the SAV approach combined with the Lagrangian multiplier approach. They are as efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Qing Cheng , Jie Shen

We construct efficient implicit-explicit BDF$k$ scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) schemes for general dissipative systems. We show that these schemes are unconditionally stable, and lead to a uniform bound of the numerical solution in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Fukeng Huang , Jie Shen

We introduce novel entropy-dissipative numerical schemes for a class of kinetic equations, leveraging the recently introduced scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach. Both first and second order schemes are constructed. Since the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Shiheng Zhang , Jie Shen , Jingwei Hu

In this paper, we present a novel strategy to systematically construct linearly implicit energy-preserving schemes with arbitrary order of accuracy for Hamiltonian PDEs. Such novel strategy is based on the newly developed exponential scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Yonghui Bo , Yushun Wang , Wenjun Cai

In this paper, for the first time we propose two linear, decoupled, energy-stable numerical schemes for multi-component two-phase compressible flow with a realistic equation of state (e.g. Peng-Robinson equation of state). The methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Xiuhua Wang

In this paper we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in time) 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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Min Wang , Qiumei Huang , Cheng Wang

The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method was introduced by Shen et al. and has been broadly used to solve thermodynamically consistent PDE problems. By utilizing scalar auxiliary variables, the original PDE problems are reformulated into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Maosheng Jiang , Zengyan Zhang , Jia Zhao