Year: 2019
Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 12 (2019), Iss. 3 : pp. 661–680
Abstract
We consider a splitting method for the numerical solution of the regularized Kobayashi-Warren-Carter (KWC) system which describes the growth of single crystal particles of different orientations in two spatial dimensions. The KWC model is a system of two nonlinear parabolic PDEs representing gradient flows associated with a free energy in two variables. Based on an implicit time discretization by the backward Euler method, we suggest a splitting method and prove the existence as well as the energy stability of a solution. The discretization in space is taken care of by Lagrangian finite elements with respect to a geometrically conforming, shape regular, simplicial triangulation of the computational domain and requires the successive solution of two individual discrete elliptic problems. Viewing the time as a parameter, the fully discrete equations represent a parameter dependent nonlinear system which is solved by a predictor corrector continuation strategy with an adaptive choice of the time step size. Numerical results illustrate the performance of the splitting method.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2018-0050
Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 12 (2019), Iss. 3 : pp. 661–680
Published online: 2019-01
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Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 20
Keywords: Crystallization Kobayashi-Warren-Carter system splitting method