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Unconditionally Gradient Stable Time Marching the Cahn-Hilliard Equation

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Numerical methods for time stepping the Cahn-Hilliard equation are given and discussed. The methods are unconditionally gradient stable, and are uniquely solvable for all time steps. The schemes require the solution of ill-conditioned linear equations, and numerical methods to accurately solve these equations are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    David J. Eyre

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Eyre, D.J. Unconditionally Gradient Stable Time Marching the Cahn-Hilliard Equation. MRS Online Proceedings Library 529, 39–46 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-529-39

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