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Applying Quantifier Elimination to Stability Analysis of Difference Schemes

1 Teikyo University of Technology, Uruido, Ichihara, Chiba 290-01, Japan, 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Stability analysis is an important tool for constructing time-stepping finite difference schemes for partial differential equations. This paper describes how von Neumann stability analysis can be reduced to a quantifier elimination problem over the reals. We report our experience in analysing some difference schemes by using a quantifier package based on the partial cylindrical algebraic decomposition algorithm.
Received January 1993. revised May 1993.
* Teikyo University of Technology, Uruido, Ichihara, Chiba 290-01, Japan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA