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Abstract | ||
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Simple finite differencing of the anisotropic diffusion equation, where diffusion is only along a given direction, does not ensure that the numerically calculated heat fluxes are in the correct direction. This can lead to negative temperatures for the anisotropic thermal diffusion equation. In a previous paper we proposed a monotonicity-preserving explicit method which uses limiters (analogous to those used in the solution of hyperbolic equations) to interpolate the temperature gradients at cell faces. However, being explicit, this method was limited by a restrictive Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability timestep. Here we propose a fast, conservative, directionally-split, semi-implicit method which is second order accurate in space, is stable for large timesteps, and is easy to implement in parallel. Although not strictly monotonicity-preserving, our method gives only small amplitude temperature oscillations at large temperature gradients, and the oscillations are damped in time. With numerical experiments we show that our semi-implicit method can achieve large speed-ups compared to the explicit method, without seriously violating the monotonicity constraint. This method can also be applied to isotropic diffusion, both on regular and distorted meshes. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.03.009 | J. Comput. Physics |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
large speed-up,implicit methods,explicit method,monotonicity-preserving explicit method,anisotropic diffusion equation,anisotropic diffusion,anisotropic thermal diffusion equation,large timesteps,large temperature gradient,semi-implicit method,monotonicity,finite differencing,fast semi-implicit method,small amplitude temperature oscillation,negative temperature,second order,thermal diffusion,temperature gradient,diffusion equation,oscillations,hyperbolic equation,heat flux | Anisotropic diffusion,Monotonic function,Isotropy,Mathematical optimization,Anisotropy,Mathematical analysis,Heat transfer,Thermal diffusivity,Mathematics,Diffusion equation,Hyperbolic partial differential equation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
230 | 12 | Journal of Computational Physics |
Citations | PageRank | References |
6 | 0.70 | 7 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Prateek Sharma | 1 | 201 | 14.12 |
| Gregory W. Hammett | 2 | 31 | 2.35 |