Numerical approximation of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation near the sharp interface limit

DOI10.1007/S00211-021-01179-7MaRDI QIDQ2662896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ľubomír Baňas, Robert Nürnberg, D. C. Antonopoulou, Andreas Prohl

Publication date 15 April 2021

Published in Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11050

zbMATH Keywords

Cahn-Hilliard equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) White noise theory (60H40) Regularization by noise (60H50) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

Abstract: We consider the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with additive noise term $varepsilo{n}^{g}ammag,dotW$ ($gamma>0$) that scales with the interfacial width parameter $varepsilon$. We verify strong error estimates for a gradient flow structure-inheriting time-implicit discretization, where $varepsilo{n}^{-1}$ only enters polynomially; the proof is based on higher-moment estimates for iterates, and a (discrete) spectral estimate for its deterministic counterpart. For $gamma$ sufficiently large, convergence in probability of iterates towards the deterministic Hele-Shaw/Mullins-Sekerka problem in the sharp-interface limit $varepsilonightarrow0$ is shown. These convergence results are partly generalized to a fully discrete finite element based discretization. We complement the theoretical results by computational studies to provide practical evidence concerning the effect of noise (depending on its 'strength' $gamma$) on the geometric evolution in the sharp-interface limit. For this purpose we compare the simulations with those from a fully discrete finite element numerical scheme for the (stochastic) Mullins-Sekerka problem. The computational results indicate that the limit for $gammageq1$ is the deterministic problem, and for $gamma=0$ we obtain agreement with a (new) stochastic version of the Mullins-Sekerka problem.

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