The Fourier collocation method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

Orthogonal cubic spline collocation method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

The Cahn–Hilliard equation plays an important role in the phase separation in a binary mixture. This is a fourth order nonlinear partial differential equation. In this paper, we study the behaviour of the solution by using orthogonal cubic spline collocation method and derive optimal order error estimates. We discuss some computational experiments by using monomial basis functions in the spatia...

The Fourier spectral method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

In this paper, a Fourier spectral method for numerically solving Cahn-Hilliard equation with periodic boundary conditions is developed. We establish their semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes that inherit the energy dissipation property and mass conservation property from the associated continuous problem. we prove existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution and derive the optimal er...

The Cahn-hilliard Equation

1. Steady states. There are many two component systems in which phase separation can be induced by rapidly cooling the system. Thus, if a two component system, which is spatially uniform at temperature T1, is rapidly cooled to a second sufficiently lower temperature T2, then the cooled system will separate into regions of higher and lower concentration. A phenomenological description of the beh...

The Cahn–Hilliard Equation

A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation

A discontinuous Galerkin finite element method has been developed to treat the high-order spatial derivatives appearing in the Cahn–Hilliard equation. The Cahn–Hilliard equation is a fourth-order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation, originally proposed to model phase segregation of binary alloys. The developed discontinuous Galerkin approach avoids the need for mixed finite elemen...