• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.265-276
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• 2019

For a simple implementation, a linear convex splitting scheme was coupled with the Fourier spectral method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic free energy. However, an inappropriate value of the splitting parameter of the linear scheme may lead to incorrect morphologies in the phase separation process. In order to overcome this problem, we present a nonlinear convex splitting Fourier spectral scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a logarithmic free energy, which is an appropriate extension of Eyre's idea of convex-concave decomposition of the energy functional. Using the nonlinear scheme, we derive a useful formula for the relation between the gradient energy coefficient and the thickness of the interfacial layer. And we present numerical simulations showing the different evolution of the solution using the linear and nonlinear schemes. The numerical results demonstrate that the nonlinear scheme is more accurate than the linear one.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.272-280
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• 2023

We study the numerical analysis for the Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation using the decoupled projection (DP) method. The CH equation is a fourth order nonlinear partial differential equation that is hard to solve. Therefore, various of numerical schemes have been proposed to solve the CH equation. To verify the relation of each existing scheme for the CH equation, we consider the DP method for linear convex splitting schemes. We present the numerical experiments to demonstrate our analysis. Throughout this study, it is expected to construct a novel numerical scheme using the relation with existing numerical schemes.