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Implicit Diffusion and the Thomas Algorithm — Buying Stability with One Tridiagonal Solve

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At r=0.6 explicit diffusion reaches 1e12 in 60 steps. One Thomas sweep keeps the implicit update finite at that same r, and still finite at r=2.