Combined prefactored compact schemes for first- and second-order derivatives: conceptual derivation

Abstract: The derivation of combined prefactored compact schemes for first and second order derivatives is described here, relying on the Fourier analysis of the original prefactored compact schemes. By this approach, the order of accuracy of the original schemes can be increased from sixth to eight, or from eight to tenth (depending on the order of the original scheme), while the number of grid points in the stencil is kept the same. Here, we only frame the conceptual derivation of the schemes, leading to a closed set of equations for the weights.