Decoupled, Energy Stable Schemes for Phase-Field Models of Two-Phase Incompressible Flows

In this paper we construct two classes, based on stabilization and convex splitting, of decoupled, unconditionally energy stable schemes for Cahn--Hilliard phase-field models of two-phase incompressible flows. At each time step, these schemes require solving only a sequence of elliptic equations, including a pressure Poisson equation. Furthermore, all of these elliptic equations are linear for the schemes based on stabilization, making them the first, to the best of the authors' knowledge, totally decoupled, linear, unconditionally energy stable schemes for phase-field models of two-phase incompressible flows. Thus, the schemes constructed in this paper are very efficient and easy to implement.

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