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In this paper, we present a comprehensive long-time stability analysis of a second-order explicit exponential Runge--Kutta (ERK2) method for the Cahn--Hilliard (CH) equation. By employing Fourier spectral collocation in space and a…
A wide range of physical phenomena exhibit auxiliary admissibility criteria, such as conservation of entropy or various energies, which arise implicitly under the exact solution of their governing PDEs. However, standard temporal schemes,…
A fourth-order exponential time differencing (ETD) Runge-Kutta scheme with dimensional splitting is developed to solve multidimensional non-linear systems of reaction-diffusion equations (RDE). By approximating the matrix exponential in the…
In this work, we develop a class of up to third-order energy-stable schemes for the Cahn--Hilliard equation. Building on Lawson's integrating factor Runge--Kutta method, which is widely used for stiff semilinear equations, we discuss its…
This paper establishes a unified framework for the space-time convergence analysis of the energy-stable third-order accurate exponential time differencing Runge-Kutta schemes. By employing Fourier pseudo-spectral discretization in space and…
The phase field crystal (PFC) method is an efficient technique for simulating the evolution of crystalline microstructures at atomistic length scales and diffusive time scales. Due to the high-order derivatives (sixth-order) and the…
We present unconditionally energy stable Runge-Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for solving a class of fourth order gradient flows. Our algorithm is geared toward arbitrarily high order approximations in both space and time,…
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The phase-field crystal equation, a parabolic, sixth-order and nonlinear partial differential equation, has generated considerable interest as a possible solution to problems arising in molecular dynamics. This is because the phase-field…
This paper investigates the energy conservation properties of explicit Runge--Kutta (RK) time discretizations for autonomous skew-symmetric systems. For linear problems, we present a general framework for constructing RK methods in which…
Before proving (unconditional) energy stability for gradient flows, most existing studies either require a strong Lipschitz condition regarding the non-linearity or certain $L^{\infty}$ bounds on the numerical solutions (the maximum…
Energy stable flux reconstruction (ESFR) is a high-order numerical method used for solving partial differential equations in computational fluid dynamics. This method is designed to preserve the energy stability of the underlying partial…
We propose a unified theoretical framework to examine the energy dissipation properties at all stages of explicit exponential Runge-Kutta (EERK) methods for gradient flow problems. The main part of the novel framework is to construct the…
In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable 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 time. In…
Many important initial value problems have the property that energy is non-increasing in time. Energy stable methods, also referred to as strongly stable methods, guarantee the same property discretely. We investigate requirements for…
In this paper, we present a parallel numerical algorithm for solving the phase field crystal equation. In the algorithm, a semi-implicit finite difference scheme is derived based on the discrete variational derivative method. Theoretical…
The existing discrete variational derivative method is only second-order accurate and fully implicit. In this paper, we propose a framework to construct an arbitrary high-order implicit (original) energy stable scheme and a second-order…
In this paper, we investigate the stability and time-step constraints for solving advection-diffusion equations using exponential time differencing (ETD) Runge-Kutta (RK) methods in time and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods in space. We…
We propose and analyze a second-order, dimension-split exponential time differencing Runge--Kutta scheme (ETD2RK-DS) for multidimensional reaction--diffusion equations in two and three spatial dimensions. Under mild assumptions on the…