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Crank-Nicolson method for solving uncertain heat equation
1College of System Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073 China.
Abstract:
For usual uncertain heat equations, it is challenging to acquire their analytic solutions. A forward difference Euler method has been used to compute the uncertain heat equations' numerical solutions. Nevertheless, the Euler scheme is instability in some cases. This paper proposes an implicit task to overcome this disadvantage, namely the Crank-Nicolson method, which is unconditional stability. An example shows that the Crank-Nicolson scheme is more stable than the previous scheme (Euler scheme). Moreover, the Crank-Nicolson method is also applied to compute two characteristics of uncertain heat equation's solution-expected value and extreme value. Some examples of uncertain heat equations are designed to show the availability of the Crank-Nicolson method.
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