A fourth order accurate discretization for the Laplace and heat equations on arbitrary domains, with applications to the Stefan problem

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2004.07.018zbMath1061.65079MaRDI QIDQ703779

Ronald P. Fedkiw, Frédéric Gibou

Publication date: 11 January 2005

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2004.07.018

zbMATH Keywords

heat equation; numerical examples; Stefan problem; Laplace equation; finite difference; implicit time discretization; Crank-Nicolson method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

80A22: Stefan problems, phase changes, etc.

35K05: Heat equation

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

35R35: Free boundary problems for PDEs

65N06: Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

80M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer