Centered-advection refinement-dependent stability

ID: centered-advection-refinement-dependent-stability

Forward time with centered advection has amplification magnitude greater than one at nonzero modes. Under a fixed nonzero Courant number, its powers blow up as the time step vanishes. If instead stays bounded, then , so is uniformly bounded on fixed time intervals. This severe parabolic refinement supplies stability without contraction; it does not validate the usual hyperbolic-step choice.

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