A semi-implicit spectral method for stochastic nonlocal phase-field models (Q841381)

The authors consider the stochastic nonlocal phase-field model in the form \[ u_{t}+\lambda \varphi_{t}=\Delta u+\xi_{u}, \quad \varepsilon^2\varphi_{t}=\varepsilon^2 \left(\alpha\cdot\Delta\varphi+J\ast\varphi-\int_{G}J\,dx\cdot\varphi\right)+ f(\varphi)+u+\xi_{\varphi}, \] where \(J\ast\varphi(x,t)= \int_{G}J(x-y)\varphi(y,t)\,dy\); \(\xi_{u}=\dot W_{u}\), \(\xi_{\varphi}=\dot W_{\varphi}\) -- these stochastic fluctuations are described by the distributional derivative of two infinite-dimensional Wiener process. The equation is considered on a rectangular domain \(G\subset\mathbb R^{d}\) subject to periodic boundary conditions. The authors present a functional-analytic framework for establishing existence, uniqueness and qualitative dynamic results, and propose semi-implicit spectral method for solving stochastic nonlocal phase-field models. Convergence properties of the proposed method is established. The authors study the effects of kernel anisotropy on the resulting phase separation microstructures, discuss the effects of noise, and show that in the nonlocal model one can observe pinning effects.