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In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main challenge of constructing numerical schemes with unconditional energy stabilities for this model is how to design proper temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Xiaofeng Yang

We propose a novel second order in time numerical scheme for Cahn-Hilliard-Navier- Stokes phase field model with matched density. The scheme is based on second order convex-splitting for the Cahn-Hilliard equation and pressure-projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Daozhi Han , Xiaoming Wang

New implicit and implicit-explicit time-stepping methods for the wave equation in second-order form are described with application to two and three-dimensional problems discretized on overset grids. The implicit schemes are single step,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Allison M. Carson , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

This paper presents a new mixed finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The well-posedness of the mixed formulation is established and the error estimates for its linearized fully discrete scheme are provided. The new mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Zhen Liu , Rui Ma , Min Zhang

In this paper, we present a rigorous proof of the convergence of first order and second order exponential time differencing (ETD) schemes for solving the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard (NCH) equation. The spatial discretization employs the Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Danni Zhang , Dongling Wang

An algorithm for a family of self-starting high-order implicit time integration schemes with controllable numerical dissipation is proposed for both linear and nonlinear transient problems. This work builds on the previous works of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daniel O'Shea , Xiaoran Zhang , Shayan Mohammadian , Chongmin Song

We present a novel spatial discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation including transport. The method is given by a mixed discretization for the two elliptic operators, with the phase field and chemical potential discretized in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Golo A. Wimmer , Ben S. Southworth , Qi Tang

The Cahn-Hilliard system has been used to describe a wide number of phase separation processes, from co-polymer systems to lipid membranes. In this work the convergence properties of a closest-point based scheme is investigated. In place of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Prerna Gera , David Salac

In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting technique of the energy functional. For the non-stochastic case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Xiao Li , Zhonghua Qiao , Hui Zhang

In this work, we develop a fully implicit Hybrid High-Order algorithm for the Cahn-Hilliard problem in mixed form. The space discretization hinges on local reconstruction operators from hybrid polynomial unknowns at elements and faces. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Florent Chave , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Fabien Marche , Franck Pigeonneau

This paper addresses how two time integration schemes, the Heun's scheme for explicit time integration and the second-order Crank-Nicolson scheme for implicit time integration, can be coupled spatially. This coupling is the prerequisite to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Laurent Muscat , Guillaume Puigt , Marc Montagnac , Pierre Brenner

A single-step high-order implicit time integration scheme for the solution of transient and wave propagation problems is presented. It is constructed from the Pad\'e expansions of the matrix exponential solution of a system of first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Chongmin Song , Sascha Eisenträger

We propose a linearly implicit structure-preserving numerical method for semilinear Hamiltonian systems with polynomial nonlinearities, combining Kahan's method and exponential integrator. This approach efficiently balances computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pan Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Lu Li

In this paper we study semi-discrete and fully discrete evolving surface finite element schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic potential. Specifically we consider linear finite elements discretising space and backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Sales

We present several first-order and second-order numerical schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with discrete unconditional energy stability. These schemes stem from the generalized Positive Auxiliary Variable (gPAV) idea, and require only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Yanxia Qian , Zhiguo Yang , Fei Wang , Suchuan Dong

Splitting is a method to handle application problems by splitting physics, scales, domain, and so on. Many splitting algorithms have been designed for efficient temporal discretization. In this paper, our goal is to use temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang

Splitting-based time integration approaches such as fractional steps, alternating direction implicit, operator splitting, and locally one-dimensional methods partition the system of interest into components and solve individual components…

The Cahn-Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes in mixtures of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Stefan Metzger

This work uses a linear relaxation method to develop efficient numerical schemes for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations. The L1+-CN formula is used to discretize the fractional derivative, and an auxiliary variable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Hui Yu , Zhaoyang Wang , Ping Lin

We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-24 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Murua