Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

The research team RAPSODI was created on August 1, 2015.

A new nonlinear numerical method for solving possibly degenerate parabolic problems with gradient flow structure was proposed and analyzed by C. Cancès & C. Guichard in [35] . This method is second order accurate in space and preserves the variational structure of the continuous problem, ensuring by the way the decay of the physical entropy. Moreover, it is more robust with respect to strong anisotropy ratios than the method proposed in [15] that was only first order accurate in space.