Abstract
It is difficult to design high order numerical schemes which could preserve both the maximum bound property (MBP) and energy dissipation law for certain phase field equations. Strong stability preserving (SSP) Runge–Kutta methods have been developed for numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations in the past few decades, where strong stability means the non-increasing of the maximum bound of the underlying solutions. However, existing framework of SSP RK methods can not handle nonlinear stabilities like energy dissipation law. The aim of this work is to extend this SSP theory to deal with the nonlinear phase field equation of the Allen–Cahn type which typically satisfies both maximum bound preserving (MBP) and energy dissipation law. More precisely, for Runge–Kutta time discretizations, we first derive a general necessary and sufficient condition under which MBP is satisfied; and we further provide a necessary condition under which the MBP scheme satisfies energy dissipation.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 97 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Scientific Computing |
Volume | 92 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 1 Aug 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2022 |
Scopus Subject Areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Software
- Numerical Analysis
- General Engineering
- Computational Mathematics
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics
User-Defined Keywords
- Allen–Cahn equation
- Energy dissipation law
- Maximum principle
- Runge–Kutta methods