Numer. Math. Theor. Meth. Appl., 12 (2019), pp. 681-708.
Published online: 2019-04
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This paper describes an application of weighted Laguerre polynomial functions to produce an unconditionally stable and accurate finite-difference scheme for the numerical solution of transient diffusion and convection-diffusion problems. The unconditionally stability of Laguerre-FDM (L-FDM) is guaranteed by expanding the time dependency of the unknown potential as a series of orthogonal functions in the domain (0, ∞), avoiding thus any time integration scheme. The L-FDM is a marching-on-in-degree scheme instead of traditional marching-on-in-time methods. For the two heat-transfer problems, we demonstrated the accuracy, numerical stability and computational efficiency of the proposed L-FDM by comparing its results against closed-form analytical solutions and numerical results obtained from classical finite-difference schemes as, for instance, the Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI).
}, issn = {2079-7338}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2018-0026}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/13126.html} }This paper describes an application of weighted Laguerre polynomial functions to produce an unconditionally stable and accurate finite-difference scheme for the numerical solution of transient diffusion and convection-diffusion problems. The unconditionally stability of Laguerre-FDM (L-FDM) is guaranteed by expanding the time dependency of the unknown potential as a series of orthogonal functions in the domain (0, ∞), avoiding thus any time integration scheme. The L-FDM is a marching-on-in-degree scheme instead of traditional marching-on-in-time methods. For the two heat-transfer problems, we demonstrated the accuracy, numerical stability and computational efficiency of the proposed L-FDM by comparing its results against closed-form analytical solutions and numerical results obtained from classical finite-difference schemes as, for instance, the Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI).