Stability and convergence of relaxed scalar auxiliary variable schemes for Cahn-Hilliard systems with bounded mass source

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Main Authors: Lam, Kei Fong, Wang, Ru
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author Lam, Kei Fong
Wang, Ru
author_facet Lam, Kei Fong
Wang, Ru
contents The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach of Shen et al. (2018), which presents a novel way to discretize a large class of gradient flows, has been extended and improved by many authors for general dissipative systems. In this work we consider a Cahn-Hilliard system with mass source that, for image processing and biological applications, may not admit a dissipative structure involving the Ginzburg-Landau energy. Hence, compared to previous works, the stability of SAV-discrete solutions for such systems is not immediate. We establish, with a bounded mass source, stability and convergence of time discrete solutions for a first-order relaxed SAV scheme in the sense of Jiang et al. (2022), and apply our ideas to Cahn-Hilliard systems appearing in diblock co-polymer phase separation, tumor growth, image inpainting and segmentation.
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spellingShingle Stability and convergence of relaxed scalar auxiliary variable schemes for Cahn-Hilliard systems with bounded mass source
Lam, Kei Fong
Wang, Ru
Numerical Analysis
35K35, 35K55, 65M12, 65Z05
The scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach of Shen et al. (2018), which presents a novel way to discretize a large class of gradient flows, has been extended and improved by many authors for general dissipative systems. In this work we consider a Cahn-Hilliard system with mass source that, for image processing and biological applications, may not admit a dissipative structure involving the Ginzburg-Landau energy. Hence, compared to previous works, the stability of SAV-discrete solutions for such systems is not immediate. We establish, with a bounded mass source, stability and convergence of time discrete solutions for a first-order relaxed SAV scheme in the sense of Jiang et al. (2022), and apply our ideas to Cahn-Hilliard systems appearing in diblock co-polymer phase separation, tumor growth, image inpainting and segmentation.
title Stability and convergence of relaxed scalar auxiliary variable schemes for Cahn-Hilliard systems with bounded mass source
topic Numerical Analysis
35K35, 35K55, 65M12, 65Z05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08543