Numerical analysis of a continuum model of phase transition
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Finite element approximation of the parabolic p-Laplacian
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Convex analysis and variational problems
Convex analysis and variational problems
The Legendre collocation method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: Steady-State and Time-Dependent Problems (Classics in Applied Mathematics Classics in Applied Mathemat)
An efficient algorithm for solving the phase field crystal model
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
An Energy-Stable and Convergent Finite-Difference Scheme for the Phase Field Crystal Equation
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
An adaptive time-stepping strategy for solving the phase field crystal model
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
High accuracy solutions to energy gradient flows from material science models
Journal of Computational Physics
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We construct unconditionally stable, unconditionally uniquely solvable, and second-order accurate (in time) schemes for gradient flows with energy of the form $\int_\Omega ( F(\nabla\phi({\bf x})) + \frac{\epsilon^2}{2}|\Delta\phi({\bf x})|^2 ) d{\bf x}$. The construction of the schemes involves the appropriate combination and extension of two classical ideas: (i) appropriate convex-concave decomposition of the energy functional and (ii) the secant method. As an application, we derive schemes for epitaxial growth models with slope selection ($F({\bf y})= \frac14(|{\bf y}|^2-1)^2$) or without slope selection ($F({\bf y})=-\frac12\ln(1+|{\bf y}|^2)$). Two types of unconditionally stable uniquely solvable second-order schemes are presented. The first type inherits the variational structure of the original continuous-in-time gradient flow, while the second type does not preserve the variational structure. We present numerical simulations for the case with slope selection which verify well-known physical scaling laws for the long time coarsening process.