On preservation of positivity in some finite element methods for the heat equation

DOI10.1515/cmam-2015-0018zbMath1327.65172MaRDI QIDQ500838

Vidar Thomée, Zoltán Horváth, Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis

Publication date: 5 October 2015

Published in: Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/cmam-2015-0018

zbMATH Keywords

heat equation; finite element method; finite element discretization; finite volume element method; positivity preserving; fully discrete; lumped mass; spatially semidiscrete

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65M12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs