Convergence of Runge-Kutta methods for nonlinear parabolic equations (Q1612468)

The aim of the authors is to study fully nonlinear parabolic initial-boundary value problems. As these problems can be cast in the form of an abstract initial value problem, the authors derive existence and convergence results for Runge-Kutta time discretizations for this last problem. The main idea is to linearize the problem along the exact solution, because Runge-Kutta methods are invariant under this linearization. Among others, an interesting example from detonation theory is studied by means of the suggested approach.