Discontinuous galerkin finite element approximation of the cahn-hilliard equation with convection

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2660-2685

  Kay, David ^a   Styles, Vanessa ^b   Süli, Endre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cahn Hilliard equation; Convergence; Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method; Error analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREE ENERGY; GALERKIN METHODS;

CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD; FREE ENERGY FUNCTION; INTERFACE PARAMETERS; PIECEWISE POLYNOMIALS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 85013995016     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080726768     Document Type: Article

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