A Second-Order Energy Stable BDF Numerical Scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation

DOI10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0197zbMath1488.65367OpenAlexW2911401788WikidataQ128520251 ScholiaQ128520251MaRDI QIDQ5159067

Cheng Wang, Wenbin Chen, Steven M. Wise, Yue Yan

Publication date: 26 October 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.oa-2016-0197

zbMATH Keywords

Cahn-Hilliard equationenergy stabilitymixed finite elementDouglas-Dupont regularizationenergy stable BDF

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic equations (35K35) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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