Structure preserving discretization of Allen-Cahn type problems modeling the motion of phase boundaries (Q2022390)

This article discusses the numerical approximation of a class of Allen-Cahn type problems modeling the motion of phase interfaces.The approach relies on a conforming Galerkin approximation for the space discretization which characterizes smooth solutions of the problem. Well-posedness of the resulting semi-discretization is established and the energy decay along discrete solution trajectories is deduced. The discretization in time is made by an adapted implicit time stepping scheme. Various numerical experiments are included to support the theoretical findings.