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Developing high-order numerical schemes for two-phase flow in porous media that preserve key physical properties remains a significant challenge in numerical analysis. In this article, we propose a general framework to construct fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Xiaoli Li , Cheng Wang , Yujing Yan , Nan Zheng

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for the model of smectic-A liquid crystal flows. The model equation, that is derived from the variational approach of the de Gennes free energy, is a highly nonlinear system that couples…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Xiaofeng Yang , Alex Brylev

In this paper, we propose a first order energy stable linear semi-implicit method for solving the Allen-Cahn-Ohta-Kawasaki equation. By introducing a new nonlinear term in the Ohta-Kawasaki free energy functional, all the system forces in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Xiang Xu , Yanxiang Zhao

In this paper, based on the weak form of the Hamiltonian formulation of the regularized long-wave equation and a novel approach of transforming the original Hamiltonian energy into a quadratic functional, a fully implicit and three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Qi Hong , Jialing Wang , Yuezheng Gong

We propose and analyze a second-order partitioned time-stepping method for a two-phase flow problem in porous media. The algorithm is based on a refactorization of Cauchy's one-leg $\theta$-method. The main part consists of the implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Giselle Sosa Jones , Catalin Trenchea

Curvilinear, multiblock summation-by-parts finite difference operators with the simultaneous approximation term method provide a stable and accurate framework for solving the wave equation in second order form. That said, the standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Brittany A Erickson , Jeremy E Kozdon , Tobias W Harvey

We develop a set of numerical schemes for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck equations. We prove that our schemes are mass conservative, uniquely solvable and keep positivity unconditionally. Furthermore, the first-order scheme is proven to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Jie Shen , Jie Xu

We describe an algorithm for the numerical solution of second order linear differential equations in the highly-oscillatory regime. It is founded on the recent observation that the solutions of equations of this type can be accurately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 James Bremer

In this paper, we investigate linear first- and second-order numerical schemes for the Allen--Cahn equation with a general (possibly degenerate) mobility. Compared with existing numerical methods, our schemes employ a novel dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Hongfei Fu , Dianming Hou , Zhonghua Qiao , Bingyin Zhang

The process of phase separation of binary systems is described by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The main objective of this article is to give a classification on the dynamic phase transitions for binary systems using either the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang

This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

This paper is devoted to the numerical study of droplet impact on solid substrates in presence of surfactants. We formulate the problem in an energetically variational framework and introduce an incompressible Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chenxi Wang , Ming-Chih Lai , Zhen Zhang

We study topology optimization governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows using a phase field model. Novel stabilized semi-implicit schemes for the gradient flows of Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard types are proposed for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Jiajie Li , Shengfeng Zhu

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for solving the inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By utilizing the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach for dealing with the convective and coupling terms, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Xiaodi Zhang , Xianghai Zhou

A new time discretization scheme for the numerical simulation of two-phase flow governed by a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model is presented. The scheme is consistent in the sense that it allows for a discrete in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

A high-order numerical method is developed for solving the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with the Flory-Huggins potential. The scheme is based on the $Q_k$ finite element with mass lumping on rectangular grids, the second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Sayantan Sarkar

An adaptive implicit-explicit (IMEX) BDF2 scheme is investigated on generalized SAV approach for the Cahn-Hilliard equation by combining with Fourier spectral method in space. It is proved that the modified energy dissipation law is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Yifan Wei , Jiwei Zhang , Chengchao Zhao , Yanmin Zhao

In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , John S. Lowengrub

In this paper, we present a class of nonuniform time-stepping, high-order linear stabilized schemes that can preserve both the discrete energy stability and maximum-bound principle (MBP) for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation. To this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Bingyin Zhang , Hongfei Fu

The Cahn--Hilliard equation is a fundamental model that describes phase separation processes of binary mixtures. In recent years, several types of dynamic boundary conditions have been proposed in order to account for possible short-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Chun Liu , Hao Wu