Numerical Analysis of Crank-Nicolson Scheme for the Allen-Cahn Equation

Numerical Analysis of Crank-Nicolson Scheme for the Allen-Cahn Equation

Year:    2021

Author:    Qianqian Chu, Guanghui Jin, Jihong Shen, Yuanfeng Jin

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 39 (2021), Iss. 5 : pp. 655–665

Abstract

We consider numerical methods to solve the Allen-Cahn equation using the second-order Crank-Nicolson scheme in time and the second-order central difference approach in space. The existence of the finite difference solution is proved with the help of Browder fixed point theorem. The difference scheme is showed to be unconditionally convergent in $L_∞$ norm by constructing an auxiliary Lipschitz continuous function. Based on this result, it is demonstrated that the difference scheme preserves the maximum principle without any restrictions on spatial step size and temporal step size. The numerical experiments also verify the reliability of the method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2002-m2019-0213

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 39 (2021), Iss. 5 : pp. 655–665

Published online:    2021-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    11

Keywords:    Allen-Cahn Equation Crank-Nicolson scheme Maximum principle Convergence.

Author Details

Qianqian Chu

Guanghui Jin

Jihong Shen

Yuanfeng Jin