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Mitchell, A.R., Fairweather, G. Improved forms of the alternating direction methods of Douglas, Peaceman, and Rachford for solving parabolic and elliptic equations. Numer. Math. 6, 285–292 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01386076
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