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The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach is a very popular and efficient method to simulate various phase field models. To save the computational cost, a new SAV approach is given by introducing a new variable $\theta$. The new SAV…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Zhengguang Liu , Xiaoli Li

The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach \cite{shen2018scalar} and its generalized version GSAV proposed in \cite{huang2020highly} are very popular methods to construct efficient and accurate energy stable schemes for nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Yanrong Zhang , Jie Shen

We carry out the convergence analysis of the Scalar Auxiliary Variable (SAV) method applied to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation which preserves a modified Hamiltonian on the discrete level. We derive a weak and strong convergence…

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

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

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 present an energy-stable scheme for numerically approximating the governing equations for incompressible two-phase flows with different densities and dynamic viscosities for the two fluids. The proposed scheme employs a scalar-valued…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Z. Yang , S. Dong

In this paper, for the first time we propose two linear, decoupled, energy-stable numerical schemes for multi-component two-phase compressible flow with a realistic equation of state (e.g. Peng-Robinson equation of state). The methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Xiuhua Wang

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We describe and analyze a finite element numerical scheme for the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel model. The scalar auxiliary variable method is used to retrieve the monotonic decay of the energy associated with the system at the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Alexandre Poulain

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