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A parallel collocation method for two dimensional linear parabolic separable partial differential equations.

dc.contributor.authorWang, Yong.en_US
dc.contributor.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-21T12:35:45Z
dc.date.available1994
dc.date.issued1994en_US
dc.descriptionIn this thesis, an orthogonal spline collocation algorithm is formulated and implemented within a method-of-lines approach for the numerical solution of a class of linear parabolic partial differential equations. A detailed implementation of the orthogonal spline collocation algorithm for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) is given and the efficiency of the implementation is discussed. By collocating the elliptic PDEs at Gaussian points, a linear system in tensor product form is obtained. A matrix decomposition approach is used to reduce the linear system to a collection of independent almost block diagonal linear systems, each of which is solved by the almost block diagonal linear system solver ARCECO. The same approach is then applied within a method-of-lines context to solve partial differential equations of parabolic type. By collocating the parabolic PDE at Gaussian points, systems of ordinary differential equations (ODES) are generated. The Jacobian matrix of the ODE system has an almost block diagonal structure. This ODE system is solved using the differential/algebraic solver DASSL, which is modified to take advantage of the special structure of the Jacobian matrix. These algorithms are efficiently implemented in a parallel architecture, using an eight processor Alliant/FX2800. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the parallel performance of these algorithms.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1994.en_US
dc.identifier.otherAAINN98953en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/55461
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherDalhousie Universityen_US
dc.publisheren_US
dc.subjectMathematics.en_US
dc.titleA parallel collocation method for two dimensional linear parabolic separable partial differential equations.en_US
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