A nonstiff, adaptive mesh refinement-based method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1849-1862

  Ceniceros, Hector D ^a   Roma, Alexandre M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinements; Adaptive method; Biharmonic equation; Conservative phase field models; Multilevel multigrid; Semi implicit methods; Spinodal decomposition

Indexed keywords

MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE METHODS; BIHARMONIC EQUATIONS; CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CONSERVATIVE PHASE FIELD MODEL; MULTIGRIDS; MULTILEVEL MULTIGRID; MULTILEVELS; PHASE FIELD MODELS; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHODS;

SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 34547518008     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.019     Document Type: Article

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