Fast solution of Cahn-Hilliard variational inequalities using implicit time discretization and finite elements

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.053zbMath1349.65438OpenAlexW2161620664WikidataQ115224014 ScholiaQ115224014MaRDI QIDQ348832

Martin Stoll, Peter Benner, Jessica Bosch

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.053

zbMATH Keywords

preconditioningCahn-Hilliard equationdouble obstacle potentialPDE-constrained optimizationsemi-smooth Newton methodMoreau-Yosida regularization technique

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Numerical methods for variational inequalities and related problems (65K15) Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators (35K86)

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Uses Software

• UMFPACK
• deal.ii
• Trilinos
• ML
• Wesseling

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