Solving the regularized, strongly anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation by an adaptive nonlinear multigrid method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 414-446

  Wise, Steven ^a   Kim, Junseok ^b   Lowengrub, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Dongguk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Cahn Hilliard equation; Cartesian grid methods; Nonlinear multigrid methods; Regularization; Strong anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MESH GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CARTESIAN GRID METHODS; COARSENINGS; DIFFUSE INTERFACE; MULTIGRID METHODS; NONLINEAR MULTIGRID; NONLINEAR MULTIGRID METHOD; REGULARISATION; STRONG ANISOTROPY;

COARSENING;

EID: 34548460677     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.04.020     Document Type: Article

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