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The energy dissipation law and the maximum bound principle are two critical physical properties of the Allen--Cahn equations. While many existing time-stepping methods are known to preserve the energy dissipation law, most apply to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Chaoyu Quan , Xiaoming Wang , Pinzhong Zheng , Zhi Zhou

The paper proposes and analyzes an efficient second-order in time numerical approximation for the Allen-Cahn equation, which is a second order nonlinear equation arising from the phase separation model. We firstly present a fully discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Huanrong Li , Junzhao Hu

We establish an optimal strong convergence rate of a fully discrete numerical scheme for second order parabolic stochastic partial differential equations with monotone drifts, including the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation, driven by an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Zhihui Liu , Zhonghua Qiao

It is well known that the classic Allen-Cahn equation satisfies the maximum bound principle (MBP), that is, the absolute value of its solution is uniformly bounded for all time by certain constant under suitable initial and boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Kun Jiang , Lili Ju , Jingwei Li , Xiao Li

The energy dissipation law and the maximum bound principle (MBP) are two important physical features of the well-known Allen-Cahn equation. While some commonly-used first-order time stepping schemes have turned out to preserve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Lili Ju , Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao

As a variational phase-field model, the time-fractional Allen-Cahn (TFAC) equation enjoys the maximum bound principle (MBP) and a variational energy dissipation law. In this work, we develop and analyze linear, structure-preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dianming Hou , Zhonghua Qiao , Tao Tang

A proof of optimal-order error estimates is given for the full discretization of the Cahn--Hilliard equation with Cahn--Hilliard-type dynamic boundary conditions in a smooth domain. The numerical method combines a linear bulk--surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Nils Bullerjahn , Balázs Kovács

The scope of this paper is the analysis and approximation of an optimal control problem related to the Allen-Cahn equation. A tracking functional is minimized subject to the Allen-Cahn equation using distributed controls that satisfy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Dimitra Plaka

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Minghua Chen , Fan Yu , Qingdong Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

We present a set of linear, second order, unconditionally energy stable schemes for the Allen-Cahn equation with nonlocal constraints that preserves the total volume of each phase in a binary material system. The energy quadratization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Xiaobo Jing , Jun Li , Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

Phase-field model is a powerful mathematical tool to study the dynamics of interface and morphology changes in fluid mechanics and material sciences. However, numerically solving a phase field model for a real problem is a challenge task…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

Strong approximation errors of both finite element semi-discretization and spatio-temporal full discretization are analyzed for the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation driven by additive noise in space dimension $d \leq 3$. The full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

In this paper, we propose and analyze a time-stepping method for the time fractional Allen-Cahn equation. The key property of the proposed method is its unconditional stability for general meshes, including the graded mesh commonly used for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Dianming Hou , Chuanju Xu

The shifted fractional trapezoidal rule (SFTR) with a special shift is adopted to construct a finite difference scheme for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn (tFAC) equation. Some essential key properties of the weights of SFTR are explored for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Guoyu Zhang , Chengming Huang , Anatoly A. Alikhanov , Baoli Yin

We propose a structure-preserving finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a dynamic boundary condition using the discrete variational derivative method (DVDM). In this approach, it is important and essential how to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Makoto Okumura , Takeshi Fukao , Daisuke Furihata , Shuji Yoshikawa

In this work, we present an efficient approach for the spatial and temporal discretization of the nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation, which incorporates various double-well potentials and an integrable kernel, with a particular focus on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Olena Burkovska , Ilyas Mustapha

We present an efficient second-order finite difference scheme for solving the 2D sine-Gordon equation, which can inherit the discrete energy conservation for the undamped model theoretically. Due to the semi-implicit treatment for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Xiaorong Kang , Wenqiang Feng , Kelong Cheng , Chunxiang Guo

The Allen-Cahn equation is a fundamental model for phase transitions, offering critical insights into the dynamics of interface evolution in various physical systems. This paper investigates the stability and robustness of frequently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Wenrui Hao , Sun Lee , Xiaofeng Xu , Zhiliang Xu

In this paper, uniformly unconditionally stable first and second order finite difference schemes are developed for kinetic transport equations in the diffusive scaling. We first derive an approximate evolution equation for the macroscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Guoliang Zhang , Hongqiang Zhu , Tao Xiong

It is well-known that the Allen-Cahn equation not only satisfies the energy dissipation law but also possesses the maximum bound principle (MBP) in the sense that the absolute value of its solution is pointwise bounded for all time by some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Lili Ju , Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao