题目：A new and robust approach to construct energy stable schemes for gradient flows

报告人：Jie Shen, Purdue University and Xiamen University

时间：2018年5月29日9:30-10:30

地点：知新楼B-1032

Abstract：We present in this talk the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and the multiple scalar auxiliary variables (MSAV) approach, to deal with nonlinear terms in a large class of gradient flows. The technique is not restricted to specific forms of the nonlinear part of the free energy, it leads to linear and unconditionally energy stable second-order (or higher-order with weak stability conditions) schemes which only require solving decoupled linear equations with constant coefficients. Hence, these schemes are extremely efficient as well as accurate. We apply the SAV approach to deal with several challenging applications which can not be easily handled by existing approaches, and present convincing numerical results to show that the new schemes are not only much more efficient and easy to implement, but also can better capture the physical properties in these models. We shall also present a convergence and error analysis under mild assumptions on the nonlinear free energy.

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