“…This class of test problems is a natural analogue to the linear test problems used to analyze stability properties (such as A-stability) of numerical schemes for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and has been considered previously by several authors [14,19,27,26,23,9,7,16,15,5] for schemes using a fixed time-step h. Linear test problems are of interest because complete analyses are often possible which, via linearization arguments, can provide insights into the behaviour of numerical schemes on more general classes of problem. Other investigations of mean-square stability with fixed time-steps include [2,3,22,28,1,24,29,8,30].…”