Spectral implementation of an adaptive moving mesh method for phase-field equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 498-510

  Feng, W M ^a   Yu, P ^a   Hu, S Y ^b   Liu, Z K ^a   Du, Q ^a   Chen, L Q ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh; Fourier spectral method; Moving mesh; Phase field equations; Semi implicit

Indexed keywords

MESH GENERATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE MESHES; ADAPTIVE MOVING MESH METHOD; FOURIER; FOURIER-SPECTRAL METHOD; MOVING MESH; PHASE FIELD EQUATION; PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SPECTRAL METHODS; UNIFORM GRIDS;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 33750969064     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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