Mathematics of Computation

Numerical analysis of an explicit approximation scheme for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

Author(s): Sören Bartels; Joy Ko; Andreas Prohl.
Journal: Math. Comp. 77 (2008), 773-788.
MSC (2000): Primary 65N12, 65N30, 35K55
Posted: October 29, 2007
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Abstract: The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation describes magnetic behavior in ferromagnetic materials. Construction of numerical strategies to approximate weak solutions for this equation is made difficult by its top order nonlinearity and nonconvex constraint. In this paper, we discuss necessary scaling of numerical parameters and provide a refined convergence result for the scheme first proposed by Alouges and Jaisson (2006). As an application, we numerically study discrete finite time blowup in two dimensions.

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Sören Bartels
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Address at time of publication: Institut für Numerische Simulation, University of Bonn, Wegelerstr. 6, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Email: bartels@ins.uni-bonn.de

Joy Ko
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Email: joyko@math.brown.edu

Andreas Prohl
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Email: prohl@na.uni-tuebingen.de

DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-07-02079-0
PII: S 0025-5718(07)02079-0
Received by editor(s): May 9, 2005
Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 23, 2006
Posted: October 29, 2007
Additional Notes: The first author was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the DFG Research Center {\sc Matheon} ``Mathematics for key technologies'' in Berlin
The second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0402788
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
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