@Article{CiCP-26-1510, author = {Li , XiaoJu , Lili and Meng , Xucheng}, title = {Convergence Analysis of Exponential Time Differencing Schemes for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2019}, volume = {26}, number = {5}, pages = {1510--1529}, abstract = {

In this paper, we rigorously prove the convergence of fully discrete first- and second-order exponential time differencing schemes for solving the Cahn-Hilliard equation. Our analyses mainly follow the standard procedure with the consistency and stability estimates for numerical error functions, while the technique of higher-order consistency analysis is adopted in order to obtain the uniform L boundedness of the numerical solutions under some moderate constraints on the time step and spatial mesh sizes. This paper provides a theoretical support for numerical analysis of exponential time differencing and other related numerical methods for phase field models, in which an assumption on the uniform L boundedness is usually needed.

}, issn = {1991-7120}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2019.js60.12}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/13274.html} }