Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5471573 | Applied Mathematics Letters | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The Cahn-Hilliard system has been used to describe a wide number of phase separation processes, from co-polymer systems to lipid membranes. In this work the convergence properties of a closest-point based scheme are investigated. In place of solving the original fourth-order system directly, two coupled second-order systems are solved. The system is solved using an approximate Schur-decomposition as a preconditioner. The results indicate that with a sufficiently high-order time discretization the method only depends on the underlying spatial resolution.
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Authors
P. Gera, D. Salac,