TY - JOUR T1 - Energy Stability of a First Order Partitioned Method for Systems with General Coupling. AU - WILLIAM LAYTON AND AZIZ TAKHIROV JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis Modeling Series B VL - 3 SP - 203 EP - 214 PY - 2013 DA - 2013/04 SN - 4 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnamb/253.html KW - partitioned methods KW - energy stability AB - We give an energy stability analysis of a first order, 2 step partitioned time discretization of systems of evolution equations. The method requires only uncoupled solutions of sub-systems at every time step without iteration, is long time stable and applies to general system couplings. We give a proof of long time energy stability under a time step restriction relating the time step to the size of the coupling terms.