Numerical study for the nucleation of one-dimensional stochastic cahn-hilliard dynamics

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1105-1132

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Li, Tiejun ^a   Zhang, Pingwen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Large deviation theory; Metropolis Hastings algorithm.; Nucleation rate; String method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876353617     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2012.v10.n4.a4     Document Type: Article

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