A second-order generalized BDF method for the two-dimensional (modified) Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov equation
Numerical Analysis
2025-12-01 v2 Numerical Analysis
Abstract
The Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (Fisher-KPP) equation is a classical reaction-diffusion equation with broad applications such as biology, chemistry and physics. In this paper, an alternative second-order scheme is proposed by employing a shifted BDF2 method to approximate the two-dimensional (modified) Fisher-KPP equation. We both consider an uniform and a nonuniform time steps of such the scheme. The stability of the uniform discretization scheme is proved. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our uniform and non-uniform schemes are robust and accurate.
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@article{arxiv.2507.14939,
title = {A second-order generalized BDF method for the two-dimensional (modified) Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov equation},
author = {Lei Ge and Yong-Liang Zhao and Qian-Yu Shu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.14939},
year = {2025}
}
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