An analytic method of fractional steps for the numerical solution to convection-dominated problems (Q2640327)

The authors study the 2-dimensional convection-diffusion equation with given initial and boundary conditions. To obtain an approximate solution of the problem the fractional-step method is used to decouple the convection-diffusion into pure convection and pure diffusion. The convection operator is treated by the backward method of characteristics and the diffusion equation is solved by the finite analytic method. The existence of a unique solution to the fractional- step analytic scheme is proved in the case of a linear convection- diffusion equation, i.e. the velocity does not depend on the searched function. The fractional-step analytic method for the approximate solution to linear and nonlinear convection-diffusion equations is unconditionally \(L_{\infty}\)-stable and convergent. Error estimates are given, too.