An Energy-Stable and Convergent Finite-Difference Scheme for the Phase Field Crystal Equation

DOI10.1137/080738143zbMath1201.35027MaRDI QIDQ3578074

Cheng Wang, Steven M. Wise, John S. Lowengrub

Publication date: 13 July 2010

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9667b54f15895d1a728aa3ad5a69e4efe2fcdf6a

zbMATH Keywords

stability; convergence; nonlinear partial differential equations; finite-difference methods; Swift-Hohenberg equation; phase field crystal; sixth-order equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

35A35: Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs

35G25: Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs

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