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Global weighted L2 error from the complete parabolic residual
Statement
Under the smoothness, exact initial data, and exact sampled Dirichlet rows of Local truncation residual for the θ heat scheme, let and let be the fully discrete solution. At every time level ,
where
Here is the exact solution sampled on the grid and is the weighted interior L2 norm. Thus the global rate is first order in time when , second order in time when , and second order in each spatial spacing under the stated derivative and boundary hypotheses.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The finite rectangular grid and time levels of Fully discrete θ heat finite-difference scheme, an exact smooth solution and exact sampled initial and Dirichlet rows as in Local truncation residual for the θ heat scheme, and .
Fully discrete θ heat finite-difference scheme uses the same linear θ update and the same exact boundary row at each time level for both the numerical and sampled exact grids.
Unconditional weighted L2 stability for θ at least one half: for a zero-boundary error step with source , .
Local truncation residual for the θ heat scheme: the exact sampled grid has complete interior residual with .
Proof
Define the interior error . Exact initial values give , and exact boundary rows give on every boundary node. Subtracting the numerical equation from the exact sampled equation whose residual is [F3] shows that satisfies the same zero-Dirichlet θ update with source .
Applying [F2] at each time step gives . Summing these inequalities from to and using yields .
The weighted grid norm has total interior weight , so [F3] gives . Since , step 2.1 implies . Substituting the two explicit values of from [F3] proves the stated rates.
Remarks
Exact boundary samples make the error zero on the boundary; the local residual includes every interior stencil row adjacent to it. The conclusion is a smooth-solution grid L2 error estimate; it gives no positivity or nonsmooth-solution rate. No choice axiom is used.
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Sources
- Endre Süli, B6.1 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations: A brief introduction to the theory of finite difference approximation of PDEs (standard reference, not scraped)
- Benjamin Seibold, MIT 18.336, Lecture 14: Von Neumann Stability Analysis (Spring 2009) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Martin Krosche, Hermann G. Matthies, and Oliver Kayser-Herold, Lecture Notes: Introduction to PDEs and Numerical Methods, Technical University Braunschweig, Revision 1.1 (2008), hosted by University of Jyväskylä (standard reference, not scraped)