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

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-34

  Tadjeran, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instability of Crank Nicholson method; Stability of Crank Nicholson method; Variable coefficient diffusion equation; Variable coefficient heat equation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFUSION;

CRANK-NICHOLSON METHOD; VARIABLE COEFFICIENT HEAT EQUATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFUSION;

EID: 33846296236     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.879     Document Type: Article

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