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IMEX Runge-Kutta Parareal for Non-Diffusive Equations

Numerical Analysis 2021-08-03 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Parareal is a widely studied parallel-in-time method that can achieve meaningful speedup on certain problems. However, it is well known that the method typically performs poorly on non-diffusive equations. This paper analyzes linear stability and convergence for IMEX Runge-Kutta Parareal methods on non-diffusive equations. By combining standard linear stability analysis with a simple convergence analysis, we find that certain Parareal configurations can achieve parallel speedup on non-diffusive equations. These stable configurations all posses low iteration counts, large block sizes, and a large number of processors. Numerical examples using the nonlinear Schrodinger equation demonstrate the analytical conclusions.

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@article{arxiv.2011.01604,
  title  = {IMEX Runge-Kutta Parareal for Non-Diffusive Equations},
  author = {Tommaso Buvoli and Michael L. Minion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01604},
  year   = {2021}
}
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