Space-time parallel solvers for reaction-diffusion problems forming Turing patterns

In recent years, parallelization has become a strong tool to avoid the limits of classical sequential computing. In the present paper, we introduce four space-time parallel methods that combine the parareal algorithm with suitable splitting techniques for the numerical solution of reaction-diffusion...

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Autores: Arrarás Ventura, Andrés, Gaspar, Francisco J., Jiménez-Ciga, Iñigo, Portero Egea, Laura
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/55624
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/55624
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Parareal algorithm
Reaction-diffusion problems
Space-time parallel methods
Splitting methods
Turing pattern formation
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Sumario:In recent years, parallelization has become a strong tool to avoid the limits of classical sequential computing. In the present paper, we introduce four space-time parallel methods that combine the parareal algorithm with suitable splitting techniques for the numerical solution of reaction-diffusion problems. In particular, we consider a suitable partition of the elliptic operator that enables the parallelization in space by using splitting time integrators. Those schemes are then chosen as the propagators of the parareal algorithm, a well-known parallel-in-time method. Both first- and second-order time integrators are considered for this task. The resulting space-time parallel methods are applied to integrate reaction-diffusion problems that model Turing pattern formation. This phenomenon appears in chemical reactions due to diffusion-driven instabilities, and rules the pattern formation for animal coat markings. Such reaction-diffusion problems require fine space and time meshes for their numerical integration, so we illustrate the usefulness of the proposed methods by solving several models of practical interest.