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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Alexandre Poulain , Katharina Schratz

This paper develops a generalized scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations. The backward Euler is used for discretizing the temporal derivative of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Zhiyong Si

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 present a new temporal discretization paradigm for developing energy-production-rate preserving numerical approximations to thermodynamically consistent partial differential equation systems, called the supplementary variable method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Yuezheng Gong , Qi Hong , Qi Wang

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 discuss an extension of the scalar auxiliary variable approach, which was originally introduced by Shen et al. ([Shen, Xu, Yang, J. Comput. Phys., 2018]) for the discretization of deterministic gradient flows. By introducing an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Stefan Metzger

In this paper, we develop a second-order, fully decoupled, and energy-stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes model for two phase flow with variable density and viscosity. We propose a new decoupling Constant Scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Jinpeng Zhang , Li Luo , Xiaoping Wang

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

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

We present in this paper construction and analysis of a block-centered finite difference method for the spatial discretization of the scalar auxiliary variable Crank-Nicolson scheme (SAV/CN-BCFD) for gradient flows, and show rigorously that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Xiaoli Li , Jie Shen , Hongxing Rui

We present a framework for devising discretely energy-stable schemes for general dissipative systems based on a generalized auxiliary variable. The auxiliary variable, a scalar number, can be defined in terms of the energy functional by a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Zhiguo Yang , Suchuan Dong

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 paper studies a scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method to solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate mobility posed on a smooth closed surface {\Gamma}. The SAV formulation is combined with adaptive time stepping and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Maxim Olshanskii , Yerbol Palzhanov , Annalisa Quaini

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

This paper proposes a finite element scheme, based on the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) approach, for the Cahn-Hilliard equation--a model that possesses significant physical relevance and a rich mathematical structure. A convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Na Li , Yongchao Zhao

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

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 novel numerical strategy is introduced for computing approximations of solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard model with degenerate mobilities. This model has recently been introduced as a second-order phase-field approximation for surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Elie Bretin , Luca Calatroni , Simon Masnou

This paper introduces a unified framework for accelerated gradient methods through the variable and operator splitting (VOS). The operator splitting decouples the optimization process into simpler subproblems, and more importantly, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Long Chen , Luo Hao , Jingrong Wei

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