%0 Journal Article %A Matthes, Daniel %A Plazotta, Simon %T A variational formulation of the BDF2 method for metric gradient flows %J ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis %D 2019 %P 145-172 %V 53 %N 1 %I EDP-Sciences %U http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/m2an/2018045/ %R 10.1051/m2an/2018045 %G en %F M2AN_2019__53_1_145_0