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We develop a theoretical foundation for the application of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) to the approximation of solutions of a wide class of partial differential equations (PDEs). This is achieved by proving the…
Phase-field models are widely employed to simulate microstructure evolution during processes such as solidification or heat treatment. The resulting partial differential equations, often strongly coupled together, may be solved by a broad…
We develop a preconditioner for the linear system arising from a finite element discretization of the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) equation. The PFC model serves as an atomic description of crystalline materials on diffusive time scales and…
Computing stationary states is an important topic for phase field crystal (PFC) models. Great efforts have been made for energy dissipation of the numerical schemes when using gradient flows. However, it is always time-consuming due to the…
With the aim of efficiently simulating three-dimensional multiphase turbulent flows with a phase-field method, we propose a new discretization scheme for the biharmonic term (the 4th-order derivative term) of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.…
We present and discuss the development of an unconditionally stable algorithm used to solve the evolution equations of the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model. This algorithm allows for an arbitrarily large algorithmic time step. As the basis…
We introduce a perturbed preconditioned gradient descent (PPGD) method for the unconstrained minimization of a strongly convex objective $G$ with a locally Lipschitz continuous gradient. We assume that $G(v)=E(v)+F(v)$ and that the gradient…
Finding the stationary states of a free energy functional is an important problem in phase field crystal (PFC) models. Many efforts have been devoted for designing numerical schemes with energy dissipation and mass conservation properties.…
In this paper we analyze and implement a second-order-in-time numerical scheme for the three-dimensional phase field crystal (PFC) equation. The numerical scheme was proposed in [46], with the unique solvability and unconditional energy…
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Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent method (AGD) is a seminal deterministic first-order method known to achieve the optimal order of iteration complexity for solving convex smooth optimization problems. Two distinct sequences of…
In this work, we develop an $\mathcal{O}(N)$ implicit real space method in 1D and 2D for the Cahn Hilliard (CH) and vector Cahn Hilliard (VCH) equations, based on the Method Of Lines Transpose (MOL$^\text{T}$) formulation. This formulation…
We consider fully discrete schemes based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and stabilized SAV approach in time and the Fourier-spectral method in space for the phase field crystal (PFC) equation. Unconditionally energy…
We propose and analyse new stabilized time marching schemes for Phase Fields model such as Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hillard equations, when discretized in space with high order finite differences compact schemes. The stabilization applies to…
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based solvers for the Poisson equation are highly efficient, exhibiting $O(N\log N)$ computational complexity and excellent parallelism. However, their application is typically restricted to simple, regular…
We present a variant of the s-step Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method that combines a Chebyshev-stabilized Krylov basis with a Forward Gauss-Seidel (FGS) iteration for the solution of the reduced Gram systems. In s-step…
In this paper, we construct and analyze an energy stable scheme by combining the latest developed scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and linear finite element method (FEM) for phase field crystal (PFC) model, and show rigorously that…
We propose two efficient energetic spectral-element methods in time for marching nonlinear gradient systems with the phase-field Allen--Cahn equation as an example: one fully implicit nonlinear method and one semi-implicit linear method.…
We develop a sketch-based factor reduction and a Nesterov-accelerated projected gradient algorithm (NPGA) with GPU acceleration, yielding a doubly accelerated solver for large-scale constrained mean-variance portfolio optimization. Starting…
Phase field crystals (PFC) are a tool for simulating materials at the atomic level. They combine the small length-scale resolution of molecular dynamics (MD) with the ability to simulate dynamics on mesoscopic time scales. We show how PFC…