Convergence Analysis of an Unconditionally Energy Stable Linear Crank-Nicolson Scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation

Convergence Analysis of an Unconditionally Energy Stable Linear Crank-Nicolson Scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation

Year:    2018

Author:    Lin Wang, Haijun Yu

Journal of Mathematical Study, Vol. 51 (2018), Iss. 1 : pp. 89–114

Abstract

Efficient and unconditionally stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and analysis an efficient stabilized linear Crank-Nicolson scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with provable unconditional stability. In this scheme the nonlinear bulk force are treated explicitly with two second-order linear stabilization terms. The semi-discretized equation is a linear elliptic system with constant coefficients, thus robust and efficient solution procedures are guaranteed. Rigorous error analysis show that, when the time step-size is small enough, the scheme is second order accurate in time with a prefactor controlled by some lower degree polynomial of $1/ \varepsilon.$ Here $\varepsilon$ is the interface thickness parameter. Numerical results are presented to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the scheme.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v51n1.18.06

Journal of Mathematical Study, Vol. 51 (2018), Iss. 1 : pp. 89–114

Published online:    2018-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    26

Keywords:    phase field model Cahn-Hilliard equation unconditionally stable stabilized semi-implicit scheme high order time marching.

Author Details

Lin Wang

Haijun Yu

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