On nonlinear instabilities in leap-frog finite difference schemes

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(86)90269-XzbMath0605.65054OpenAlexW1971885287MaRDI QIDQ1083836

A. R. Mitchell, David M. Sloan

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(86)90269-x

zbMATH Keywords

large time behaviourFourier side-band growthleap-frog instabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

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