Entropy-dissipating finite-difference schemes for nonlinear fourth-order parabolic equations

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2020234zbMATH Open1483.65129arXiv2001.03742OpenAlexW3046239747MaRDI QIDQ2033561FDOQ2033561

Authors: Marcel Braukhoff, Ansgar Jüngel 

Publication date: 17 June 2021

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Structure-preserving finite-difference schemes for general nonlinear fourth-order parabolic equations on the one-dimensional torus are derived. Examples include the thin-film and the Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equations. The schemes conserve the mass and dissipate the entropy. The scheme associated to the logarithmic entropy also preserves the positivity. The idea of the derivation is to reformulate the equations in such a way that the chain rule is avoided. A central finite-difference discretization is then applied to the reformulation. In this way, the same dissipation rates as in the continuous case are recovered. The strategy can be extended to a multi-dimensional thin-film equation. Numerical examples in one and two space dimensions illustrate the dissipation properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03742

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zbMATH Keywords

entropydenoisingfinite differencesthin-film equationDLSS equationdiscrete chain rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Initial value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K30) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Lubrication theory (76D08) Thin fluid films (76A20) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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