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Schur Decomposition for Stiff Differential Equations

Numerical Analysis 2023-05-23 v1 Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Numerical Analysis Computational Physics

Abstract

A quantitative definition of numerical stiffness for initial value problems is proposed. Exponential integrators can effectively integrate linearly stiff systems, but they become expensive when the linear coefficient is a matrix, especially when the time step is adapted to maintain a prescribed local error. Schur decomposition is shown to avoid the need for computing matrix exponentials in such simulations, while still circumventing linear stiffness.

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@article{arxiv.2305.12488,
  title  = {Schur Decomposition for Stiff Differential Equations},
  author = {Thoma Zoto and John C. Bowman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12488},
  year   = {2023}
}
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