An adaptive finite element method for solving a double well problem describing crystalline microstructure
An adaptive finite element method for solving a double well problem describing crystalline microstructure
The minimization of nonconvex functionals naturally arises in materials sciences where deformation gradients in certain alloys exhibit microstructures. For example, minimizing sequences of the nonconvex Ericksen-James energy can be associated with deformations in martensitic materials that are observed in experiments[2,3]. — From the numerical point of view, classical conforming and nonconforming finite element discretizations have been observed to give minimizers with their quality being highly dependent...
Convergent finite element discretizations of the nonstationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics system
The incompressible MHD equations couple Navier-Stokes equations with Maxwell's equations to describe the flow of a viscous, incompressible, and electrically conducting fluid in a Lipschitz domain . We verify convergence of iterates of different coupling and decoupling fully discrete schemes towards weak solutions for vanishing discretization parameters. Optimal first order of convergence is shown in the presence of strong solutions for a splitting scheme which decouples the computation of velocity...
Stable discretization of a diffuse interface model for liquid-vapor flows with surface tension
The isothermal Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system is used to model dynamics of a compressible fluid exhibiting phase transitions between a liquid and a vapor phase in the presence of capillarity effects close to phase boundaries. Standard numerical discretizations are known to violate discrete versions of inherent energy inequalities, thus leading to spurious dynamics of computed solutions close to static equilibria (, parasitic currents). In this work, we propose a time-implicit discretization of the...
Analysis of gradient flow of a regularized Mumford-Shah functional for image segmentation and image inpainting
This paper studies the gradient flow of a regularized Mumford-Shah functional proposed by Ambrosio and Tortorelli (1990, 1992) for image segmentation, and adopted by Esedoglu and Shen (2002) for image inpainting. It is shown that the gradient flow with initial data possesses a global weak solution, and it has a unique global in time strong solution, which has at most finite number of point singularities in the space-time, when the initial data are in . A family of fully discrete approximation...
Analysis of total variation flow and its finite element approximations
We study the gradient flow for the total variation functional, which arises in image processing and geometric applications. We propose a variational inequality weak formulation for the gradient flow, and establish well-posedness of the problem by the energy method. The main idea of our approach is to exploit the relationship between the regularized gradient flow (characterized by a small positive parameter , and the minimal surface flow [21] and the prescribed mean curvature flow [16]. Since our...
Analysis of total variation flow and its finite element approximations
We study the gradient flow for the total variation functional, which arises in image processing and geometric applications. We propose a variational inequality weak formulation for the gradient flow, and establish well-posedness of the problem by the energy method. The main idea of our approach is to exploit the relationship between the regularized gradient flow (characterized by a small positive parameter , see (1.7)) and the minimal surface flow [21] and the prescribed mean curvature flow [16]. Since...
Analysis of gradient flow of a regularized Mumford-Shah functional for image segmentation and image inpainting
This paper studies the gradient flow of a regularized Mumford-Shah functional proposed by Ambrosio and Tortorelli (1990, 1992) for image segmentation, and adopted by Esedoglu and Shen (2002) for image inpainting. It is shown that the gradient flow with initial data possesses a global weak solution, and it has a unique global in time strong solution, which has at most finite number of point singularities in the space-time, when the initial data are in . A family of fully discrete approximation...
Convergent finite element discretizations of the Navier-Stokes-Nernst-Planck-Poisson system
We propose and analyse two convergent fully discrete schemes to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Nernst-Planck-Poisson system. The first scheme converges to weak solutions satisfying an energy and an entropy dissipation law. The second scheme uses Chorin's projection method to obtain an efficient approximation that converges to strong solutions at optimal rates.
Stabilization methods in relaxed micromagnetism
The magnetization of a ferromagnetic sample solves a non-convex variational problem, where its relaxation by convexifying the energy density resolves relevant macroscopic information. The numerical analysis of the relaxed model has to deal with a constrained convex but degenerated, nonlocal energy functional in mixed formulation for magnetic potential and magnetization . In [C. Carstensen and A. Prohl, Numer. Math. 90 (2001) 65–99], the conforming -element in spatial dimensions is shown to...
Stabilization methods in relaxed micromagnetism
The magnetization of a ferromagnetic sample solves a non-convex variational problem, where its relaxation by convexifying the energy density resolves relevant macroscopic information. The numerical analysis of the relaxed model has to deal with a constrained convex but degenerated, nonlocal energy functional in mixed formulation for magnetic potential and magnetization . In [C. Carstensen and A. Prohl, (2001) 65–99], the conforming -element in spatial dimensions is shown to...
Ergodicity for a stochastic geodesic equation in the tangent bundle of the 2D sphere
We study ergodic properties of stochastic geometric wave equations on a particular model with the target being the 2D sphere while considering only solutions which are independent of the space variable. This simplification leads to a degenerate stochastic equation in the tangent bundle of the 2D sphere. Studying this equation, we prove existence and non-uniqueness of invariant probability measures for the original problem and obtain also results on attractivity towards an invariant measure. We also...
Convergence of a fully discrete finite element method for a degenerate parabolic system modelling nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation
We consider a degenerate parabolic system which models the evolution of nematic liquid crystal with variable degree of orientation. The system is a slight modification to that proposed in [Calderer , (2002) 1033–1047], which is a special case of Ericksen's general continuum model in [Ericksen, (1991) 97–120]. We prove the global existence of weak solutions by passing to the limit in a regularized system. Moreover, we propose a practical fully discrete finite...
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