Exponential Time Differencing (ETD) Schemes for Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Series
Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
Time
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Bruce A. Wade – Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Organizer
Yingjie Liu
We discuss various exponential time differencing (ETD) schemes designed to handle nonlinear parabolic systems. The ETD schemes use certain Pade approximations of the matrix exponential function. These ETD schemes have potential to be implemented in parallel and their performance is very robust with respect to the type of PDE. They are unconditionally stable and computationally very fast due to the technique of computing the nonlinear part explicitly. To handle the problem of irregular initial or boundary data an adaptive ETD scheme is utilized, which adds sufficient damping of spurious oscillations. We discuss algorithm development, theory and applications.