Abst rac t . The Crank-Nicolson scheme is widely used to solve numerically the diffusion equation, because of its good stability properties. It is, however, ill-behaved when large time-steps are used: the short wave-lengths may happen to be less damped than the long ones. A detailed analysis of this flaw is performed and an Mternative scheme is proposed, which removes this difficulty while pres...

In this paper, we propose a finite difference method for the Riesz space fractional diffusion equations with delay and a nonlinear source term on a finite domain. The proposed method combines a time scheme based on the predictor-corrector method and the Crank-Nicolson scheme for the spatial discretization. The corresponding theoretical results including stability and convergence are provided. S...

In this work, we propose a Crank-Nicolson-type scheme with variable steps for the time fractional Allen-Cahn equation. The proposed is shown to be unconditionally stable (in variational energy sense), and maximum bound preserving. Interestingly, discrete stability result obtained in paper can recover classical dissipation law when order $\alpha \rightarrow 1.$ That is, our asymptotically preser...

. In this paper, we develop a quadratic spline collocation method for integrating the nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) of a plug flow reactor model. The method is proposed in order to be used for the operation of control design and/or numerical simulations. We first present the Crank-Nicolson method to temporally discretize the state variable. Then, we develop and analyze the pro...

In this paper, we consider a type of fractional diffusion equation (FDE) with variable coefficient on a finite domain. Firstly, we utilize a second-order scheme to approximate the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative and present the finite difference scheme. Specifically, we discuss the Crank-Nicolson scheme and solve it in matrix form. Secondly, we prove the stability and convergence of the...

In this article, we aim to discuss the formulation of two explicit group iterative finite difference methods for time-dependent two dimensional Burger’s problem on a variable mesh. For the non-linear problems, the discretization leads to a non-linear system whose Jacobian is a tridiagonal matrix. We discuss the Newton’s explicit group iterative methods for a general Burger’s equation. The propo...

We present an algorithm for the time integration of nonlinear partial differential equations. The algorithm uses distributed approximating functionals, which are based on an analytic approximation method, in order to achieve highly accurate spatial derivatives. The time integration is based on a second-order unconditionally A -stable Crank-Nicolson scheme with a Newton solver. We apply the inte...