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The artifacts can be explained by some theory

Exact solution of the scheme: u^n = A^n,\quad A = \frac{1 - (1-\theta) a\Delta t}{1 + \theta a\Delta t}\thinspace .

Key results:

Concluding remarks:

Only the Backward Euler scheme is guaranteed to always give qualitatively correct results.

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