Second order fully semi-Lagrangian discretizations of advection-diffusion-reaction systems (Q2049101)

This paper proposes and study a second order fully semi-Lagrangian discretization for the numerical solution of advection-diffusion-reaction systems. More precisely, a fully semi-Lagrangian discretization is employed for the advection and diffusion terms. The advantage of this semi-Lagrangian technique is that it allows to consider larger time discretization steps without the important time cost of the implicit discretization methods. An important contribution of this work is the proof that the proposed scheme is of order two in time. Moreover, by an extrapolation technique the authors are able to ensure a second order for the boundary Dirichlet conditions. Finally, numerical simulations successfully illustrate the theoretical results. The paper is globally well written and the results are clearly presented and discussed.