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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Chaoyu Quan , Zhijun Tan , Yanyao Wu

In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation, with second order accuracy in time and the fourth order finite difference approximation in space. In particular, the truncation error for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Kelong Cheng , Wenqiang Feng , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

Based on relative energy estimates, we study the stability of solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation with concentration dependent mobility with respect to perturbations. As a by-product of our analysis, we obtain a weak-strong uniqueness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

We present a finite-volume based numerical scheme for a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation which combines ideas from recent numerical schemes for gradient flow equations and nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations. The equation of interest is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Rainey Lyons , Grigor Nika , Adrian Muntean

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

Comparing with the classical local gradient flow and phase field models, the nonlocal models such as nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equations equipped with nonlocal diffusion operator can describe more practical phenomena for modeling phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Zhengguang liu , Aijie Cheng , Xiaoli Li

We construct a decoupled, first-order, fully discrete, and unconditionally energy stable scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. The scheme is divided into two main parts. The first part involves the calculation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Haijun Gao , Xi Li , Minfu Feng

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main challenge of constructing numerical schemes with unconditional energy stabilities for this model is how to design proper temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Xiaofeng Yang

Recent results in the literature provide computational evidence that stabilized semi-implicit time-stepping method can efficiently simulate phase field problems involving fourth-order nonlinear dif- fusion, with typical examples like the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Dong Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Tao Tang

Efficient and unconditionally stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and analysis an efficient stabilized linear Crank-Nicolson scheme for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We propose a novel second order in time numerical scheme for Cahn-Hilliard-Navier- Stokes phase field model with matched density. The scheme is based on second order convex-splitting for the Cahn-Hilliard equation and pressure-projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Daozhi Han , Xiaoming Wang

The Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations represent the fundamental building blocks of hydrodynamic phase-field models for multiphase fluid flow dynamics. Due to the coupling between the Navier-Stokes equation and the Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Jia Zhao

In the recent breakthrough work \cite{xu2023lack}, a rigorous numerical analysis was conducted on the numerical solution of a scalar ODE containing a cubic polynomial derived from the Allen-Cahn equation. It was found that only the implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Pansheng Li , Dongling Wang

We propose and analyze a first-order finite difference scheme for the functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) equation with a logarithmic Flory-Huggins potential. The semi-implicit numerical scheme is designed based on a suitable convex-concave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Wenbin Chen , Jianyu Jing , Hao Wu

Two new numerical schemes to approximate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility (between stable values 0 and 1) are presented, by using two different non-centered approximation of the mobility. We prove that both schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Francisco Guillen-Gonzalez , Giordano Tierra

This work explores the solvability of a sixth-order Cahn--Hilliard equation with an inertial term, which serves as a relaxation of a higher-order variant of the classical Cahn--Hilliard equation. The equation includes a source term that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi

A system of two operator equations is considered - one of pseudomonotone type and the other of strongly monotone type - both being strongly coupled. Conditions are given that allow to reduce the solvability of this system to a single…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Donat Wegner

A high-order numerical method is developed for solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with the Flory-Huggins potential. The scheme is based on the $Q_k$ finite element with mass lumping on rectangular grids, the second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Sayantan Sarkar

This paper proposes an unconditionally stable numerical method for solving a nonlinear Sobolev model with distributed delay. The proposed computational approach approximates the time derivative by interpolation technique whereas the spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Eric Ngondiep

The Cahn-Hilliard/Allen-Cahn equation with noise is a simplified mean field model of stochastic microscopic dynamics associated with adsorption and desorption-spin flip mechanisms in the context of surface processes. For such an equation we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Dimitra C. Antonopoulou , Geogia Karali , Annie Millet