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We present and analyze a new second-order finite difference scheme for the Macromolecular Microsphere Composite hydrogel, Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau (MMC-TDGL) equation, a Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins-deGennes energy…

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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…

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An implicit variable-step BDF2 scheme is established for solving the space fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation, involving the fractional Laplacian, derived from a gradient flow in the negative order Sobolev space $H^{-\alpha}$,…

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We propose a novel, highly efficient, mean-reverting-SAV-BDF2-based, long-time unconditionally stable numerical scheme for a class of finite-dimensional nonlinear models important in geophysical fluid dynamics. The scheme is highly…

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A new discrete energy dissipation law of the variable-step fractional BDF2 (second-order backward differentiation formula) scheme is established for time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard model with the Caputo's fractional derivative of order…

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We develop several efficient numerical schemes which preserve exactly the global constraints for constrained gradient flows. Our schemes are based on the SAV approach combined with the Lagrangian multiplier approach. They are as efficient…

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We introduce a class of unconditionally energy stable, high order accurate schemes for gradient flows in a very general setting. The new schemes are a high order analogue of the minimizing movements approach for generating a time discrete…

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We develop structure preserving schemes for a class of nonlinear mobility continuity equation. When the mobility is a concave function, this equation admits a form of gradient flow with respect to a Wasserstein-like transport metric. Our…

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We design and compute first-order implicit-in-time variational schemes with high-order spatial discretization for initial value gradient flows in generalized optimal transport metric spaces. We first review some examples of gradient flows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Guosheng Fu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We prove that the two-step backward differentiation formula (BDF2) method is stable on arbitrary time grids; while the variable-step BDF3 scheme is stable if almost all adjacent step ratios are less than 2.553. These results relax the…

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We generalize the explicit high-order positivity-preserving entropy stable spectral collocation schemes developed in Upperman 2023 and Yamaleev 2023 for the three-dimensional (3D) compressible Navier Stokes equations to a time implicit…

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We analyze a variable-step extension of a family of arbitrarily high-order exponential time differencing multistep (ETD-MS) schemes recently developed by the authors. We prove that the schemes are unconditionally stable in the sense that a…

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A mass-preserving two-step Lagrange-Galerkin scheme of second order in time for convection-diffusion problems is presented, and convergence with optimal error estimates is proved in the framework of $L^2$-theory. The introduced scheme…

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