AccScience Publishing / IJOCTA / Volume 9 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.11121/ijocta.01.2019.00561
RESEARCH ARTICLE

On the numerical investigations to the Cahn-Allen equation by using finite difference method

Asıf Yokuş1* Hasan Bulut2
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1 Department of Actuary, Faculty of Science, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey
2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey
Submitted: 6 November 2017 | Accepted: 23 January 2018 | Published: 15 October 2018
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Abstract

In this study, by using the finite difference method (FDM for short) and operators, the discretized Cahn-Allen equation is obtained.  New initial condition for the Cahn-Allen equation is introduced, considering the analytical solution given in Application of the modified exponential function method to the Cahn-Allen equation, AIP Conference Proceedings 1798, 020033 [1]. It is shown that the FDM is stable for the usage of the Fourier-Von Neumann technique. Accuracy of the method is analyzed in terms of the errors in and Furthermore, the FDM is treated in order to obtain the numerical results and to construct a table including numerical and exact solutions as well as absolute measuring error. A comparison between the numerical and the exact solutions is supported with two and three dimensional graphics via Wolfram Mathematica 11.

Keywords
Cahn-Allen equation
Finite Difference Method
Numerical Solution
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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