THE FOURTH ORDER RUNGE-KUTTA EXPONENTIAL TIME DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR THE ALLEN-CAHN EQUATION

T. B. Tilavova

doi:10.5281/zenodo.10279279

T. B. Tilavova

Abstract. In this paper we present a numerical method for solving the Allen-Cahn equation with a corresponding boundary condition. The Allen-Cahn equation is discretized by the Chebyshev spectral method in space. We use the Fourth Order Runge-Kutta Exponential Time Difference method with Fourier's transformation for its diagonalization in time. The numerical results of solution of the Allen-Cahn equation are obtained by using Matlab code.

Keywords: Allen-Cahn equation, ETDRK4, Chebyshev spectral methods, exponential time difference, Runge-Kutta method

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