Analysis of an alternating direction method applied to singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion problems

Torsten Linss, Niall Madden

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Abstract

We present an analysis of an Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) scheme for a linear, singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equation. By providing an expression for the error that separates the temporal and spatial components, we can use existing results for steady-state problems to give a succinct analysis for the time-dependent problem, and that generalizes for various layer-adapted meshes. We report the results of numerical experiments that support the theoretical findings. In addition, we provide a numerical comparison between the ADI and Euler techniques, as well details of the computational advantage gained by parallelizing the algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)507-519
Number of pages13
JournalInternational Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling
Volume7
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Alternating directions
  • Layer-adapted meshes
  • Reaction-diffusion problems
  • Singular perturbation

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