@Article{JCM-34-451, author = {Tang , Tao and Yang , Jiang}, title = {Implicit-Explicit Scheme for the Allen-Cahn Equation Preserves the Maximum Principle}, journal = {Journal of Computational Mathematics}, year = {2016}, volume = {34}, number = {5}, pages = {451--461}, abstract = {

It is known that the Allen-Chan equations satisfy the maximum principle. Is this true for numerical schemes? To the best of our knowledge, the state-of-art stability framework is the nonlinear energy stability which has been studied extensively for the phase field type equations. In this work, we will show that a stronger stability under the infinity norm can be established for the implicit-explicit discretization in time and central finite difference in space. In other words, this commonly used numerical method for the Allen-Cahn equation preserves the maximum principle.

}, issn = {1991-7139}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1603-m2014-0017}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/9806.html} }