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An Integral Equation Method for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation in the Wetting Problem
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- We present an integral equation approach to solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation equipped with boundary conditions that model solid surfaces with prescribed Young's angles. The discretization of the system in time using convex splitting leads to a modified biharmonic equation at each time step. To solve it, we split the solution into a volume potential computed with free space kernels, plus the solution to a second kind integral equation (SKIE). The volume potential is evaluated with the help of a box-based volume-FMM method. For non-box domains, source density is extended by solving a biharmonic Dirichlet problem. The near-singular boundary integrals are computed using quadrature by expansion (QBX) with FMM acceleration. Our method has linear complexity in the number of surface/volume degrees of freedom and can achieve high order convergence with adaptive refinement to manage error from function extension.
- Subjects :
- Mathematics - Numerical Analysis
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1904.07357
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109521