Based on a group of new Saul’yev type asymmetric difference schemes constructed by author, a high-order, unconditionally stable and parallel alternating segment explicit-implicit method for the numerical solution of the fourth-order heat equation is derived in this paper. The truncation error is fourth-order in space, which is much more accurate than the known alternating segment explicit-impli...

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Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...

A method to decompose a 3D object into simple parts starting from its curve skeleton is described. Branches of the curve skeleton are classified as meaningful and non-meaningful by using the notion of zone of influence of the points where skeleton branches meet. Meaningful branches are associated to subsets of the object, which are obtained by subtracting from the input object suitably expanded...

We formulate general guidelines to extend an explicit code with a great variety of implicit and semi-implicit time integration schemes. The discussion is based on their speciic implementation in the Versatile Advection Code, which is a general purpose software package for solving systems of non-linear hyperbolic (and/or parabolic) partial diierential equations, using standard high-resolution sh...