Hessian recovery based finite element methods for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2019.01.056zbMATH Open1452.65255arXiv1810.09212OpenAlexW2897227399WikidataQ128284739 ScholiaQ128284739MaRDI QIDQ2218600FDOQ2218600


Authors: Hailong Guo, Qingsong Zou, Min-Qiang Xu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 January 2021

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard C0 linear finite elements space. Precisely, we first transform the fourth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation to its variational formulation in which only first-order and second-order derivatives are involved and then we compute the and second-order derivatives of a linear finite element function by a least-squares fitting recovery procedure. The intrinsic link between the second-order derivatives (Hessian matrix) recovery scheme and the finite difference method is studied in the paper. In particular, for the first time, we discover that the Laplace recovery scheme is exactly the well-known five-point stencil over uniform meshes. The proposed discretization for the Cahn-Hilliard equation can be regarded as a combination of the finite difference scheme and the finite element scheme. In addition, special considerations are put on different methods for imposing Neumann type boundary conditions. The optimal-order convergence and energy stability are numerically proved through a series of benchmark tests.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09212




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