An adaptive time-stepping strategy for the molecular beam epitaxy models

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1395-1414

  Qiao, Zhonghua ^a   Zhang, Zhengru ^b   Tang, Tao ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive time stepping method; Finite difference schemes; Molecular beam epitaxy; Unconditionally energy stable

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MOLECULAR BEAMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

ADAPTIVE TIME STEP; ADAPTIVE TIME STEPPING; ADAPTIVE TIME-STEPPING METHOD; ENERGY; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; TIME ADAPTIVITY; TIME STEPPING METHOD; UNCONDITIONALLY ENERGY STABLE;

MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY;

EID: 79960420807     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100812781     Document Type: Article

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