HIGH-ACCURACY ALTERNATING SEGMENT EXPLICIT-IMPLICIT METHOD FOR THE FOURTH-ORDER HEAT EQUATION

Based on a group of new Saul’yev type asymmetric difference schemes constructed by author, a high-order, unconditionally stable and parallel alternating segment explicit-implicit method for the numerical solution of the fourth-order heat equation is derived in this paper. The truncation error is fourth-order in space, which is much more accurate than the known alternating segment explicit-implicit methods. Numerical simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the present method that are in preference to the prior methods.