An unconditionally stable and O(τ2 + h4) order L∞ convergent difference scheme for linear parabolic equations with variable coefficients

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 619-631

  Sun, Zhi Zhong ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Extrapolation; Finite difference; Parabolic equation; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035498905     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.1030     Document Type: Article

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