Adaptive Time-Stepping for Incompressible Flow Part I: Scalar Advection-Diffusion

  • Authors:
  • Philip M. Gresho;David F. Griffiths;David J. Silvester

  • Affiliations:
  • pgresho@comcast.net;dfg@maths.dundee.ac.uk;d.silvester@manchester.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Even the simplest advection-diffusion problems can exhibit multiple time scales. This means that robust variable step time integrators are a prerequisite if such problems are to be efficiently solved computationally. The performance of the second order trapezoid rule using an explicit Adams-Bashforth method for error control is assessed in this work. This combination is particularly well suited to long time integration of advection-dominated problems. Herein it is shown that a stabilized implementation of the trapezoid rule leads to a very effective integrator in other situations: specifically diffusion problems with rough initial data; and general advection-diffusion problems with different physical time scales governing the system evolution.