High-order energy stable variable-step schemes for the time-fractional Cahn–Hilliard model

Haiqing Zhang and Hong-lin Liao

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 2024, vol. 223, issue C, 171-182

Abstract: Based on the Alikhanov formula of the Caputo derivative and the exponential scalar auxiliary variable approach, two different second-order stable numerical schemes are constructed for the time-fractional Cahn–Hilliard model, including the nonlinear L2-1σ scheme and the linear L2-1σ-ESAV scheme. Applying the discrete gradient structure, we construct the asymptotically compatible energies and the associated energy dissipation laws of these two schemes for the time-fractional Cahn–Hilliard model. Several experiments are carried out to demonstrate the accuracy of our schemes and compare their computational efficiency, as well as to investigate the coarsening dynamics of the time-fractional Cahn–Hilliard model with different adaptive time-stepping strategies. In the long-time simulations, the linear L2-1σ-ESAV scheme may be more costly than the nonlinear L2-1σ scheme although the linear scheme may take less time at each time level. It is observed that the energy of the L2-1σ-ESAV scheme prones to produce small fluctuations when large time steps are used.

Keywords: Time-fractional Cahn–Hilliard model; Exponential scalar auxiliary variable; Discrete gradient structure; Adaptive time-stepping strategies; Asymptotically compatible (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2024.04.005

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