A Globally Convergent Modified Newton Method for the Direct Minimization of the Ohta--Kawasaki Energy with Application to the Directed Self-Assembly of Diblock Copolymers

DOI10.1137/20M1378119zbMath1480.49027arXiv2010.15271MaRDI QIDQ5022488

J. Tinsley Oden, Omar Ghattas, Lianghao Cao

Publication date: 19 January 2022

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15271

zbMATH Keywords

Newton method; Ohta-Kawasaki model; Hessian approximation; block copolymer; nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard model; directed self-assembly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90C26: Nonconvex programming, global optimization

49M15: Newton-type methods

82B21: Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

Uses Software

• FEniCS
• hIPPYlib