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Concept
Finite difference coefficient
Résumé
In mathematics, to approximate a derivative to an arbitrary order of accuracy, it is possible to use the finite difference. A finite difference can be central, forward or backward.
This table contains the coefficients of the central differences, for several orders of accuracy and with uniform grid spacing:
For example, the third derivative with a second-order accuracy is
where represents a uniform grid spacing between each finite difference interval, and .
For the -th derivative with accuracy , there are central coefficients . These are given by the solution of the linear equation system
where the only non-zero value on the right hand side is in the -th row.
An open source implementation for calculating finite difference coefficients of arbitrary derivates and accuracy order in one dimension is available.
The theory of Lagrange polynomials provides explicit formulas for the finite difference coefficients. For the first six derivatives we have the following:
where are generalized harmonic numbers.
This table contains the coefficients of the forward differences, for several orders of accuracy and with uniform grid spacing:
For example, the first derivative with a third-order accuracy and the second derivative with a second-order accuracy are
while the corresponding backward approximations are given by
To get the coefficients of the backward approximations from those of the forward ones, give all odd derivatives listed in the table in the previous section the opposite sign, whereas for even derivatives the signs stay the same.
The following table illustrates this:
For a given arbitrary stencil points of length with the order of derivatives , the finite difference coefficients can be obtained by solving the linear equations
where is the Kronecker delta, equal to one if , and zero otherwise.
Example, for , order of differentiation :
The order of accuracy of the approximation takes the usual form .
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