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It is difficult to design high order numerical schemes which could preserve both the maximum bound property (MBP) and energy dissipation law for certain phase field equations. Strong stability preserving (SSP) Runge–Kutta methods have been developed for numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations in the past few decades, where strong stability means the non-increasing of the maximum bound of the underlying solutions. However, existing framework of SSP RK methods can not handle nonlinear stabilities like energy dissipation law. The aim of this work is to extend this SSP theory to deal with the nonlinear phase field equation of the Allen–Cahn type which typically satisfies both maximum bound preserving (MBP) and energy dissipation law. More precisely, for Runge–Kutta time discretizations, we first derive a general necessary and sufficient condition under which MBP is satisfied; and we further provide a necessary condition under which the MBP scheme satisfies energy dissipation.
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The work of J. Yang is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant No. 11871264, Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2018A0303130123), the Shenzhen Natural Science Fund (RCJC20210609103819018), and NSFC/Hong Kong RRC Joint Research Scheme (NFSC/RGC 11961160718).
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Fu, Z., Tang, T. & Yang, J. Energy Plus Maximum Bound Preserving Runge–Kutta Methods for the Allen–Cahn Equation. J Sci Comput 92, 97 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-022-01940-6
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