Monotone difference schemes stabilized by discrete mollification for strongly degenerate parabolic equations |
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| Authors: | Carlos D Acosta Raimund Bürger Carlos E Mejía |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia;2. Centro de Investigación en Ingeniería Matemática and Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160‐C, Concepción, Chile;3. Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia |
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| Abstract: | The discrete mollification method is a convolution‐based filtering procedure suitable for the regularization of ill‐posed problems and for the stabilization of explicit schemes for the solution of PDEs. This method is applied to the discretization of the diffusive terms of a known first‐order monotone finite difference scheme Evje and Karlsen, SIAM J Numer Anal 37 (2000) 1838–1860] for initial value problems of strongly degenerate parabolic equations in one space dimension. It is proved that the mollified scheme is monotone and converges to the unique entropy solution of the initial value problem, under a CFL stability condition which permits to use time steps that are larger than with the unmollified (basic) scheme. Several numerical experiments illustrate the performance and gains in CPU time for the mollified scheme. Applications to initial‐boundary value problems are included. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 28: 38–62, 2012 |
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| Keywords: | CFL condition convergence degenerate parabolic equation discrete mollification method entropy solution monotone difference scheme |
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