Stability and convergence of the spectral Galerkin method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1485-1500

  He, Yinnian ^a   Liu, Yunxian ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Convergence; Error estimate; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249085286     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: 10982426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.20328     Document Type: Article

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