Isogeometric analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard phase-field model

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 197, Issue 49-50, 2008, Pages 4333-4352

  Gómez, Héctor ^a,b   Calo, Victor M ^a   Bazilevs, Yuri ^a   Hughes, Thomas J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard; Isogeometric analysis; Isoperimetric problem; NURBS; Phase field; Steady state solutions

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

CAHN-HILLIARD; CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; FINITE ELEMENT BASIS FUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTIONS; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ISOPERIMETRIC PROBLEM; NURBS; PHASE FIELD MODELLING; PHASE-FIELD; PIECEWISE SMOOTH; SPATIAL DERIVATIVES; STEADY STATE SOLUTIONS; VARIATIONAL FORMULATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 52749093955     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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