A new finite variable difference method with application to nonlinear Burgers' equation

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(97)86040-3MaRDI QIDQ4374158zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sakai Katsuhiro

Publication date 6 July 1998

Published in Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0362-546X(97)86040-3

zbMATH Keywords

finite variable difference methodGodunov theoremnonlinear Burgers' equationnumerical oscillationnumerical stabilityrarefaction waveshock wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

Review text

Finite difference solutions of an initial value problem for 1D Burgers type conservation equations, in which hyperbolic and parabolic properties are mixed, are considered. Several higher-order numerical schemes with constant difference coefficients for the convection term in these conservation equations have been developed. However these linear high-order schemes tend to suffer from Godunov's theorem regarding the monotonicity of the numerical solutions. Namely, numerical solutions with linear high-order schemes tend to show unphysical (numerical) oscillations, especially where discontinuities in the solution exist. In the paper, at first, the previous finite variable difference method (FVDM) proposed recently by the author is generalized so as to be applicable to a polynomial expansion scheme. Next, to optimize the numerical schemes a new criterion for that the characteristic roots of the resulting difference equations have poles is deduced from the studies on the generalized FVDM. Based on this criterion, new numerical schemes robust for all mesh Reynolds numbers are derived. Finally, these new schemes are applied to the nonlinear Burgers equation with three kinds of initial conditions: 1) propagating of an initial shock wave, 2) forming of a shock wave, 3) propagating of a rarefaction wave, which are interesting phenomena due to nonlinear effects. The smoothness (nonoscillations), shock resolutions and physical relevance fulfilling the entropy condition in the numerical solutions are also discussed.

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