Implicit-explicit methods for a class of nonlinear nonlocal gradient flow equations modelling collective behaviour

Abstract The numerical solution of nonlinear convection-diffusion equations with nonlocal flux by explicit finite difference methods is costly due to the local spatial convolution within the convective numerical flux and the disadvantageous Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition caused by the diffusion term. More efficient numerical methods are obtained by applying second-order implicit-explicit (IMEX) Runge-Kutta time discretizations to an available explicit scheme for such models in Carrillo et al. (2015) [13] . The resulting IMEX-RK methods require solving nonlinear algebraic systems in every time step. It is proven, for a general number of space dimensions, that this method is well def…

Implicit–explicit schemes for nonlinear nonlocal equations with a gradient flow structure in one space dimension