Stability results for linearly implicit fractional step discretizations of nonlinear time dependent parabolic problems (Q2499749)

Some stability results are analyzed for a variant of fractional step Runge-Kutta methods which is designed to integrate efficiently semi-linear multidimensional parabolic problems. These schemes are shown to be linearly implicit in combination with a suitable splitting of the space differential operator. The authors also give a proof for the convergence of such schemes, by combining the stability results of this paper with the corresponding properties of consistency.