A two colorable fourth-order compact difference scheme and parallel iterative solution of the 3D convection diffusion equation

Jun Zhang, Lixin Ge and Jules Kouatchou

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 2000, vol. 54, issue 1, 65-80

Abstract: A new fourth-order compact difference scheme for the three-dimensional (3D) convection diffusion equation with variable coefficients is presented. The novelty of this new difference scheme is that it only requires 15 grid points and that it can be decoupled with two colors. The entire computational grid can be updated in two parallel subsweeps with a Gauss–Seidel type iterative method. This is compared with the known 19-point fourth-order compact difference scheme which requires four colors to decouple the computational grid. Numerical results, with multigrid methods implemented on a shared memory parallel computer, are presented to compare the 15-and 19-point fourth-order compact schemes.

Keywords: 3D convection diffusion equation; Fourth-order compact difference schemes; Multigrid method; Parallel computation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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