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This paper proposes a new class of arbitrarily high-order conservative numerical schemes for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. This approach is based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method. The equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Kai Yang

The Smectic-A (SmA) phase is modeled by a modified Landau-de Gennes (mLdG) model proposed by Xia et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett., 126 (2021), 177801], in which a tensor order parameter Q for the orientational order is coupled with a real scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Wenshuai Hu , Guanghua Ji , Xiao Li

The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV)-type methods are very popular techniques for solving various nonlinear dissipative systems. Compared to the semi-implicit method, the baseline SAV method can keep a modified energy dissipation law but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Zhengguang Liu , Yanrong Zhang , Xiaoli Li

The Landau--Lifshitz--Bloch (LLB) equation is a well-established micromagnetic model for describing magnetisation dynamics in ferromagnets at elevated temperatures. In this paper, we propose and analyse two fully discrete, conforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Agus L. Soenjaya

Scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) methods are a class of linear schemes for solving gradient flows that are known for the stability of a `modified' energy. In this paper, we propose an improved SAV (iSAV) scheme that not only retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 RUi Chen , Tingfeng Wang , Xiaofei Zhao

A family of arbitrarily high-order fully discrete space-time finite element methods are proposed for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation based on the scalar auxiliary variable formulation, which consists of a Gauss collocation temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Xiaobing Feng , Buyang Li , Shu Ma

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 time dependent generalization of the Ginzburg -Landau Lagrangian is proposed. It contains two terms determining the time dependence and the four arbitrary scalar functions. Relevant equations, which coincide with equations following from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Zagrodzinski , T. Nikiciuk

We propose in this paper a new minimization algorithm based on a slightly modified version of the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach coupled with a relaxation step and an adaptive strategy. It enjoys several distinct advantages over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Xinyu Liu , Jie Shen , Xiaongxiong Zhang

We construct new first- and second-order pressure correction schemes using the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach for the Navier-Stokes equations. These schemes are linear, decoupled and only require a sequence of solving Poisson type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Xiaoli Li , Jie Shen , Zhengguang Liu

We propose a new numerical technique to deal with nonlinear terms in gradient flows. By introducing a scalar auxiliary variable (SAV), we construct efficient and robust energy stable schemes for a large class of gradient flows. The SAV…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Jie Shen , Jie Xu , Jiang Yang

We construct a numerical scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach in time and the MAC discretization in space for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes phase field model, and carry out stability and error analysis. The scheme…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Xiaoli Li , Jie Shen

We investigate the numerical approximation of the stochastic Allen--Cahn equation with multiplicative noise on a periodic domain. The considered scheme uses a recently proposed augmented variant of scalar auxiliary variable method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Stefan Metzger

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

The optimal error estimate that depending only on the polynomial degree of $ \varepsilon^{-1}$ is established for the temporal semi-discrete scheme of the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which is based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Shu Ma , Weifeng Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

In this paper, we present a second order, linear, fully decoupled, and unconditionally energy stable scheme for solving the Erickson-Leslie model. This approach integrates the pressure correction method with a scalar auxiliary variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Ruonan Cao , Nianyu Yi

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

In this paper, we propose and analyze high order efficient schemes for the time fractional Allen-Cahn equation. The proposed schemes are based on the L1 discretization for the time fractional derivative and the extended scalar auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Dianming Hou , Hongyi Zhu , Chuanju Xu

This article focuses on the space-time isogeometric method for a linear time dependent fourth order problem. Using an auxiliary variable, first the problem is split into a system of two second order differential equations and then the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Shreya Chauhan , Sudhakar Chaudhary

A Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) finite element method for transient convection-diffusion-reaction equation in time-dependent domains is proposed. In particular, a convection dominated transient scalar problem is considered. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Sashikumaar Ganesan , Shweta Srivastava