Staircasing in semidiscrete stabilised inverse linear diffusion algorithms

  • Authors:
  • M. Breuí;M. Welk

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University, Bld. E 1 1, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany;Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Saarland University, Bld. E 1 1, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider a semidiscrete model problem for the approximation of stabilised inverse linear diffusion processes. The work is motivated by an important observation on fully discrete schemes concerning the so-called staircasing phenomenon: when sharpening monotone data profiles, fully discrete methods generally introduce stepfunction-type solutions reminiscent of staircases. In this work, we show by an analysis of dynamical systems in corresponding semidiscrete formulations that already the semidiscrete numerical model contains the relevant information on the occurrence of staircasing. Numerical experiments confirm and complement the theoretical results.