Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Cahn-Hilliard type equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 472-491

  Xia, Yinhua ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Shu, Chi Wang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Cahn Hilliard system; Local discontinuous Galerkin methods; Stability

Indexed keywords

GALERKIN METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CAHN-HILLIARD SYSTEMS; CAHN-HILLIARD TYPE EQUATION; ENERGY STABILITY; FOURTH-ORDER; LOCAL DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ONE DIMENSION; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 35348877949     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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