Special Session 79: Recent Advancements in the Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Continuous Data Assimilation and Long-time Accuracy in a C0-IP Method for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation

Amanda E Diegel
Mississippi State University
USA
Co-Author(s):    Leo G. Rebholz
Abstract:
We propose a numerical approximation method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation that incorporates continuous data assimilation in order to achieve long time accuracy. The method uses a C0 interior penalty spatial discretization of the fourth order Cahn-Hilliard equation, together with a semi-implicit temporal discretization. We prove the method is long time stable and long time accurate, for arbitrarily inaccurate initial conditions, provided enough data measurements are incorporated into the simulation. Numerical experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the method on a benchmark test problem.