Second order schemes and time-step adaptivity for allen-cahn and cahn-hilliard models

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 821-846

  Guillén González, Francisco ^a   Tierra, Giordano ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Adaptive time stepping; Diffuse interface phase field; Energy stability; Finite elements; Unique solvability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ADAPTIVE TIME STEPPING; CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION; CAHN-HILLIARD MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DIFFUSE INTERFACE; ENERGY STABILITY; NUMERICAL DISSIPATION; UNIQUE SOLVABILITY;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

EID: 85027948699     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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