Finite difference approximations for partial differential equations with rapidly oscillating coefficients
Finite Difference Approximations to the Dirichlet Problem for Elliptic Systems.
Finite-difference approximation of energies in fracture mechanics
Finite-difference preconditioners for superconsistent pseudospectral approximations
The superconsistent collocation method, which is based on a collocation grid different from the one used to represent the solution, has proven to be very accurate in the resolution of various functional equations. Excellent results can be also obtained for what concerns preconditioning. Some analysis and numerous experiments, regarding the use of finite-differences preconditioners, for matrices arising from pseudospectral approximations of advection-diffusion boundary value problems, are presented...
Fully implicit ADI schemes for solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation
The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model is an effective approach for the electrostatics analysis of solvated biomolecules. The nonlinearity associated with the PB equation is critical when the underlying electrostatic potential is strong, but is extremely difficult to solve numerically. In this paper, we construct two operator splitting alternating direction implicit (ADI) schemes to efficiently and stably solve the nonlinear PB equation in a pseudo-transient continuation approach. The operator splitting...