
Numerical Experiments 137
defined over Ω × [t
0
,T
f
]=Ω×[100, 10
5
], with an exact solution given as
u
exact
(x, t)=
u
0
2
√
Dπt
exp(−
(x − vt)
2
4Dt
)exp(−λt). (6.40)
The initial condition and the Dirichlet boundary condition are defined using
the exact solution (6.40) at the start time t
0
= 100 and with u
0
=1.0. The
reaction parameter is given as λ =10
−5
, where the convection parameter is
v =0.001 and the diffusion parameter is D =0.0001. The time interval is
given as [100, 10
5
]. The boundary condition is given by u(±∞,t)=0.
We considered the backward Euler discretization for both splitted opera-
tors (i.e., the convection and the diffusion reaction operator), to simulate the
solution over the time interval [100, 10
5
].
The model problem (6.38) is solved with both first-order operator-splitting
method (FOP) and first-order operator-splitting method with overlapping
Schwarz waveform-relaxation method (FOPSWR).
We compare the accuracy of the solution over the entire spatial domain
with different values for the spatial step Δx, and equidistant time-steps τ
using both the FOP method and the FOPSWR method over two subdomains
with different sizes of overlapping. The errors of the solution are given in Table
6.12 and Table 6.13, respectively. The FOPSWR method is considered over
two overlapping subdomains of different overlapping size L
2
−L
1
, to conclude
on the accuracy of the algorithm with the operator-splitting method. The
considered subdomains are Ω
1
=[0, 60] and Ω
2
=[30, 150], as well as Ω
1
=
[0, 100] and Ω
2
=[30, 150], see Figure 6.3. We apply the maximum norm,
L
∞
-norm, as an error norm for the error between the exact and numerical
solution.
Ω
21
Ω
22
Ω
11
Ω
12
Ω
Decomposed Domains
FIGURE 6.3: Overlapping situations for the numerical example.
The graphical output for the FOP method is presented in Figure 6.4. In
our numerical computations, we refined the time- and space-steps systemat-
ically in order to visualize the accuracy and error reduction throughout the
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