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Computational model

The system (1)-(5) was integrated, using a semi-implicit Euler method. A uniform rectangular grid with radial and angular steps tex2html_wrap_inline872 in a rectangle tex2html_wrap_inline874 was used. The derivatives with respect to r and tex2html_wrap_inline858 were approximated by central differences, except for the radial derivative tex2html_wrap_inline880 at the boundaries, where the one-sided second order differences were used

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To provide convergence at small r, the simplest implicit finite difference approximation of the angular part of the Laplacian was used. Both the radial part of the Laplacian and the non-linear terms were integrated explicitly. To resolve the resultant linear system a cyclic elimination method was implemented [24]. The Laplacian at r=0 was computed by formula (8) resulting from the mean value theorem for a disk [11], [22], [23],

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More precisely, the non-local boundary condition at r=0 has been set

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Here tex2html_wrap_inline888 are the values of u at the circumference with radius tex2html_wrap_inline892 , M is the number of angular segments, and tex2html_wrap_inline896 is the value of u at r=0.



Vadim Biktashev
Fri Apr 4 17:38:59 GMT 1997