A convergent SAV scheme for Cahn–Hilliard equations with dynamic boundary conditions

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRAC078arXiv2203.12326MaRDI QIDQ6190839FDOQ6190839

Publication date: 6 February 2024

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Cahn-Hilliard equation is one of the most common models to describe phase separation processes in mixtures of two materials. For a better description of short-range interactions between the material and the boundary, various dynamic boundary conditions for this equation have been proposed. Recently, a family of models using Cahn-Hilliard-type equations on the boundary of the domain to describe adsorption processes was analysed (cf. Knopf, Lam, Liu, Metzger, ESAIM: Math. Model. Numer. Anal., 2021). This family of models includes the case of instantaneous adsorption processes studied by Goldstein, Miranville, and Schimperna (Physica D, 2011) as well as the case of vanishing adsorption rates which was investigated by Liu and Wu (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 2019). In this paper, we are interested in the numerical treatment of these models and propose an unconditionally stable, linear, fully discrete finite element scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable approach. Furthermore, we establish the convergence of discrete solutions towards suitable weak solutions of the original model. Thereby, when passing to the limit, we are able to remove the auxiliary variables introduced in the discrete setting completely. Finally, we present simulations based on the proposed linear scheme and compare them to results obtained using a stable, non-linear scheme to underline the practicality of our scheme.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12326

zbMATH Keywords

convergence Cahn-Hilliard dynamic boundary conditions finite elements scalar auxiliary variable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Moving boundary problems for PDEs (35R37) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) 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) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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