Efficient, Accurate and Energy Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Phase Field Models of Two-Phase Incompressible Flows

Efficient, Accurate and Energy Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Phase Field Models of Two-Phase Incompressible Flows

Year:    2019

Author:    Ruihan Guo, Yan Xu

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 26 (2019), Iss. 4 : pp. 1224–1248

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to propose fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) finite element methods for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equation, which are shown to be unconditionally energy stable. In details, using the convex splitting principle, we first construct a first order scheme and a second order Crank-Nicolson scheme for time discretizations. The proposed schemes are shown to be unconditionally energy stable. Then, using the invariant energy quadratization (IEQ) approach, we develop a novel linear and decoupled first order scheme, which is easy to implement and energy stable. In addition, a semi-implicit spectral deferred correction (SDC) method combining with the first order convex splitting scheme is employed to improve the temporal accuracy. Due to the local properties of the LDG methods, the resulting algebraic equations at the implicit level is easy to implement and can be solved in an explicit way when it is coupled with iterative methods. In particular, we present efficient and practical multigrid solvers to solve the resulting algebraic equations, which have nearly optimal complexity. Numerical experiments of the accuracy and long time simulations are presented to illustrate the high order accuracy in both time and space, the capability and efficiency of the proposed methods.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0100

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 26 (2019), Iss. 4 : pp. 1224–1248

Published online:    2019-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    25

Keywords:    Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equation local discontinuous Galerkin method convex splitting invariant energy quadratization unconditional energy stability spectral deferred correction method.

Author Details

Ruihan Guo

Yan Xu

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