Centered convection-diffusion semidiscretization

ID: centered-convection-diffusion-semidiscretization

With homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, centered differences turn one-dimensional diffusion into a symmetric negative-definite matrix and constant advection into a skew-symmetric matrix. Their sum dissipates the discrete Euclidean norm, giving mesh-uniform energy stability for every fixed advection coefficient.

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