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

  • Kei Fong Lam EMAIL logo and Ru Wang

Abstract

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 with mass source appearing in diblock co-polymer phase separation, tumor growth, image inpainting and segmentation.

JEL Classification: 35K35; 35K55; 65M12; 65Z05

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Published Online: 2023-08-30

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