Focusing: A mechanism for instability of nonlinear finite difference equations

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(83)90082-7zbMath0512.65070OpenAlexW2004342435MaRDI QIDQ1050100

Talib Sarie, Alan C. Newell, William L. Briggs

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(83)90082-7

zbMATH Keywords

leapfrog methodquasi-linear equationdestabilization of nmerical algorithmsfinite amplitude instabilitynonlinear finite difference equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60)

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Cites Work

• Finite Amplitude Instabilities of Partial Difference Equations
• On the Instability of Leap-Frog and Crank-Nicolson Approximations of a Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation
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