An energy stable fourth order finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

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DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2018.05.039zbMATH Open1416.65256arXiv1712.06210OpenAlexW2962906715WikidataQ129756883 ScholiaQ129756883MaRDI QIDQ2315907FDOQ2315907


Authors: Kelong Cheng, W. Feng, C. Wang, Steven Wise Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 July 2019

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation, with second order accuracy in time and the fourth order finite difference approximation in space. In particular, the truncation error for the long stencil fourth order finite difference approximation, over a uniform numerical grid with a periodic boundary condition, is analyzed, via the help of discrete Fourier analysis instead of the the standard Taylor expansion. This in turn results in a reduced regularity requirement for the test function. In the temporal approximation, we apply a second order BDF stencil, combined with a second order extrapolation formula applied to the concave diffusion term, as well as a second order artificial Douglas-Dupont regularization term, for the sake of energy stability. As a result, the unique solvability, energy stability are established for the proposed numerical scheme, and an optimal rate convergence analysis is derived in the ellinfty(0,T;ell2)capell2(0,T;Hh2) norm. A few numerical experiments are presented, which confirm the robustness and accuracy of the proposed scheme.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06210




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