Stability analysis of the Crank-Nicholson method for variable coefficient diffusion equation

DOI10.1002/cnm.879zbMath1107.65079OpenAlexW2017635360MaRDI QIDQ3418141

Charles Tadjeran

Publication date: 2 February 2007

Published in: Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.879

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityinstabilityheat equationnumerical examplesdiffusion equationCrank-Nicolson methodvariable coefficient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15)

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