Smoothing properties in multistep backward difference method and time derivative approximation for linear parabolic equations

Smoothing properties in multistep backward difference method and time derivative approximation for linear parabolic equations

A smoothing property in multistep backward difference method for a linear parabolic problem in Hilbert space has been proved, where the operator is selfadjoint, positive definite with compact inverse. By using the solutions computed by a multistep backward difference method for the parabolic problem, we introduce an approximation scheme for time derivative. The nonsmooth data error estimate for...

Fully implicit, linearly implicit and implicit-explicit backward difference formulae for quasi-linear parabolic equations

Quasi-linear parabolic equations are discretised in time by fully implicit backward difference formulae (BDF) as well as by implicit–explicit and linearly implicit BDF methods up to order 5. Under appropriate stability conditions for the various methods considered, we establish optimal order a priori error bounds by energy estimates, which become applicable via the Nevanlinna-Odeh multiplier te...

Higher Order Derivative Estimates for Finite-difference Schemes for Linear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations

Backward difference formulae: New multipliers and stability properties for parabolic equations

We determine new, more favourable, and in a sense optimal, multipliers for the threeand five-step backward difference formula (BDF) methods. We apply the new multipliers to establish stability of these methods as well as of their implicit–explicit counterparts for parabolic equations by energy techniques, under milder conditions than the ones recently imposed in [4, 1].

Long Time Behavior of Backward Difference Type Methods for Parabolic Equations with Memory in Banach Space

We show stability in a Banach space framework of backward Euler and second order backward diierence timestepping methods for a parabolic equation with memory. The results are applied to derive maximum norm stability estimates for piecewise linear nite element approximations in a plane spatial domain, which is accomplished by a new resolvent estimate for the discrete Laplacian. Error estimates a...