Higher order operator splitting Fourier spectral methods for the Allen-Cahn equation

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Authors Jaemin Shin, Hyun Geun Lee, June-Yub Lee

Publication date 23 February 2018

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02529

zbMATH Keywords

Allen-Cahn equationbackward time stepconvergenceFourier spectral methodfree-energy evolution equationheat evolution equationoperator splitting methodspinodal decompositionstabilitytraveling wave solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

Abstract: The Allen-Cahn equation is solved numerically by operator splitting Fourier spectral methods. The basic idea of the operator splitting method is to decompose the original problem into sub-equations and compose the approximate solution of the original equation using the solutions of the subproblems. Unlike the first and the second order methods, each of the heat and the free-energy evolution operators has at least one backward evaluation in higher order methods. We investigate the effect of negative time steps on a general form of third order schemes and suggest three third order methods for better stability and accuracy. Two fourth order methods are also presented. The traveling wave solution and a spinodal decomposition problem are used to demonstrate numerical properties and the order of convergence of the proposed methods.

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