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CFL

The document discusses the stability condition for explicit numerical schemes applied to wave and convection equations, emphasizing the relationship between the distance covered by disturbances and the mesh points. It highlights the CFL stability condition, which requires the mesh ratio to ensure that the numerical domain of dependence encompasses the physical domain of dependence. This ensures that the numerical approximation at each mesh point accurately reflects the physical influences affecting the system.

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CFL

The document discusses the stability condition for explicit numerical schemes applied to wave and convection equations, emphasizing the relationship between the distance covered by disturbances and the mesh points. It highlights the CFL stability condition, which requires the mesh ratio to ensure that the numerical domain of dependence encompasses the physical domain of dependence. This ensures that the numerical approximation at each mesh point accurately reflects the physical influences affecting the system.

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Figure 1:

This fundamental stability condition of most explicit schemes for wave and
convection equations expresses that the distance at covered during the time
interval ∆t, by the disturbances propagating with speed a, should be lower
than the minimum distance between two mesh points.
line PQ as the characteristic dx/dt = a of the hyperbolic linear convection
equation through P.
The domain of dependence of the dierential equation in P, for positive con-
vection velocities PQC.
On the other hand, we can consider that the numerical scheme also denes
a numerical domain of dependence of P which is the domain between PAC,
since the solution at time level (n + 1) depends on the points i and (i − 1).
The CFL stability condition σ < 1 expresses that the mesh ratio ∆t/∆x has

1
Figure 2:

to be chosen in such a way that the domain of dependence of the dierential


equation should be entirely contained in the numerical domain of dependence
of the discretized equations.
In other words, the numerical scheme dening the approximation un+1
i in
mesh point i must be able to include all the physical information which
inuences the behavior of the system in this point.

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