A Wasserstein approach to the numerical solution of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation

摘要

In this work we introduce a new numerical approach for solving Cahn-Hilliard equation with Neumann boundary conditions involving recent mass transportation methods. The numerical scheme is based on an alternative formulation of the problem using the so called pseudo-inverse of the cumulative distribution function. We establish a stable fully discrete scheme that inherits the energy dissipation and mass conservation from the associated continuous problem. We perform some numerical experiments which confirm our results.