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Fast Runge-Kutta approximation of inhomogeneous parabolic equations

María López-Fernández, Christian Lubich, Cesar Palencia, Achim Schädle

math.NAarXiv:math/0504466

Abstract

The result after N steps of an implicit Runge-Kutta time discretization of an inhomogeneous linear parabolic differential equation is computed, up to accuracy ε, by solving only O( N 1ε) linear systems of equations. We derive, analyse, and numerically illustrate this fast algorithm.

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