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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

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

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

We propose an energy-optimized invariant energy quadratization method to solve the gradient flow models in this paper, which requires only one linear energy-optimized step to correct the auxiliary variables on each time step. In addition to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Xiaoqing Meng , Aijie Cheng , Zhengguang Liu

Optimizing the learning rate remains a critical challenge in machine learning, essential for achieving model stability and efficient convergence. The Vector Auxiliary Variable (VAV) algorithm introduces a novel energy-based self-adjustable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiahao Zhang , Christian Moya , Guang Lin

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

In this paper, we propose and analyze semi-implicit numerical schemes for the stochastic wave equation (SWE) with general nonlinearity and multiplicative noise. These numerical schemes, called stochastic scalar auxiliary variable (SAV)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Jianbo Cui , Jialin Hong , Liying Sun

In this paper, we propose a novel Lagrange Multiplier approach, named zero-factor (ZF) approach to solve a series of gradient flow problems. The numerical schemes based on the new algorithm are unconditionally energy stable with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Zhengguang Liu , Xiaoli Li

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, 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

In this paper, two efficient and magnetization norm preserving numerical schemes based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method are developed for calculating the ground state in micromagnetic structures. The first SAV scheme is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jiayun He , Lei Yang , Jiajun Zhan

We present a systematical approach to developing arbitrarily high order, unconditionally energy stable numerical schemes for thermodynamically consistent gradient flow models that satisfy energy dissipation laws. Utilizing the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Yuezheng Gong , Jia Zhao , Qi Wang

The kinetic Langevin dynamics finds diverse applications in various disciplines such as molecular dynamics and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling. In this paper, a novel splitting scalar auxiliary variable (SSAV) scheme is proposed for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Lei Dai , Yingsong Jiang , Xiaojie Wang

This paper continues to study linear and unconditionally modified-energy stable (abbreviated as SAV-GL) schemes for the gradient flows. The schemes are built on the SAV technique and the general linear time discretizations (GLTD) as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Zengqiang Tan , Huazhong Tang

In this paper, we present a novel semi-implicit numerical scheme for the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation driven by multiplicative noise. By reformulating the original equation into an equivalent stochastic scalar auxiliary variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Jianbo Cui , Jie Shen , Derui Sheng , Yahong Xiang

The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach of Shen et al. (2018), which presents a novel way to discretize a large class of gradient flows, has been extended and improved by many authors for general dissipative systems. In this work we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Kei Fong Lam , Ru Wang

We present error estimates for four unconditionally energy stable numerical schemes developed for solving Allen-Cahn equations with nonlocal constraints. The schemes are linear and second order in time and space, designed based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Shouwen Sun , Xiaobo Jing , Qi Wang

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

We introduce a class of unconditionally energy stable, high order accurate schemes for gradient flows in a very general setting. The new schemes are a high order analogue of the minimizing movements approach for generating a time discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Alexander Zaitzeff , Selim Esedoglu , Krishna Garikipati

We consider a kind of differential equations d/dt y(t) = R(y(t))y(t) + f(y(t)) with energy conservation. Such conservative models appear for instance in quantum physics, engineering and molecular dynamics. A new class of energy-preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Xicui Li , Bin Wang , Xin Zou