A positivity-preserving, energy stable scheme for a Ternary Cahn-Hilliard system with the singular interfacial parameters
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Publication:6366394
DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2021.110451arXiv2104.14053MaRDI QIDQ6366394FDOQ6366394
Zhengru Zhang, Steven Wise, C. Wang, Lixiu Dong
Publication date: 28 April 2021
Abstract: In this paper, we construct and analyze a uniquely solvable, positivity preserving and unconditionally energy stable finite-difference scheme for the periodic three-component Macromolecular Microsphere Composite (MMC) hydrogels system, a ternary Cahn-Hilliard system with a Flory-Huggins-deGennes free energy potential. The proposed scheme is based on a convex-concave decomposition of the given energy functional with two variables, and the centered difference method is adopted in space. We provide a theoretical justification that this numerical scheme has a pair of unique solutions, such that the positivity is always preserved for all the singular terms, i.e., not only two phase variables are always between and , but also the sum of two phase variables is between and , at a point-wise level. In addition, we use the local Newton approximation and multigrid method to solve this nonlinear numerical scheme, and various numerical results are presented, including the numerical convergence test, positivity-preserving property test, energy dissipation and mass conservation properties.
Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Qxx) Parabolic equations and parabolic systems (35Kxx) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx)
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