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Application of approximate matrix factorization to high order linearly implicit Runge-Kutta methods
Linearly implicit Runge-Kutta methods with approximate matrix factorization
can solve efficiently large systems of differential equations that have a stiff
linear part, e.g. reaction-diffusion systems. However, the use of approximate
factorization usually leads to loss of accuracy, which makes it attractive only
for low order time integration schemes. This paper discusses the application of
approximate matrix factorization with high order methods; an inexpensive
correction procedure applied to each stage allows to retain the high order of
the underlying linearly implicit Runge-Kutta scheme. The accuracy and stability
of the methods are studied. Numerical experiments on reaction-diffusion type
problems of different sizes and with different degrees of stiffness illustrate
the efficiency of the proposed approach
A Study of the Numerical Stability of an ImEx Scheme with Application to the Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations
The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with generalized Frumkin-Butler-Volmer
boundary conditions (PNP-FBV) describe ion transport with Faradaic reactions
and have applications in a wide variety of fields. Using an adaptive
time-stepper based on a second-order variable step-size, semi-implicit,
backward differentiation formula (VSSBDF2), we observe that when the underlying
dynamics is one that would have the solutions converge to a steady state
solution, the adaptive time-stepper produces solutions that "nearly" converge
to the steady state and that, simultaneously, the time-step sizes stabilize at
a limiting size . Linearizing the SBDF2 scheme about the steady
state solution, we demonstrate that the linearized scheme is conditionally
stable and that this is the cause of the adaptive time-stepper's behaviour.
Mesh-refinement, as well as a study of the eigenvectors corresponding to the
critical eigenvalues, demonstrate that the conditional stability is not due to
a time-step constraint caused by high-frequency contributions. We study the
stability domain of the linearized scheme and find that it can have corners as
well as jump discontinuities.Comment: The earlier version, arXiv:1905.01368v1, also contained: a linear
stability analysis of the SBDF2 scheme, a study of the effect of Richardson
Extrapolation on numerical stability, and a study of the stability domain of
the logistic equation. This is the 2nd of a pair of articles: "A Variable
Step Size Implicit-Explicit Scheme for the Solution of the
Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations", is on arXi