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Parabolic mesh refinement (k=rd2)

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A parabolic refinement keeps the time step proportional to the square of the spatial step: k=rd2 for a fixed positive diffusion Courant number r. A consistency bound O(k+d2) then becomes O(d2), though its separate time order remains one.

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