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Jacobi's algorithm extended to the diffusion equation in two dimensions, discretizing

We discretize again position and time, and use the following approximation for the second derivatives \begin{equation*} u_{xx}\approx \frac{u(x+h,y,t)-2u(x,y,t)+u(x-h,y,t)}{h^2}, \end{equation*} which we rewrite as, in its discretized version, \begin{equation*} u_{xx}\approx \frac{u^{l}_{i+1,j}-2u^{l}_{i,j}+u^{l}_{i-1,j}}{h^2}, \end{equation*} where x_i=x_0+ih , y_j=y_0+jh and t_l=t_0+l\Delta t , with h=L/(n+1) and \Delta t the time step.