Orthogonal cubic spline collocation method for the extended Fisher--Kolmogorov equation (Q1765458)

The extended Fisher-Kolmogorov equation, first transformed into a system of second order equations, is discretized in space using a collocation method with orthogonal cubic splines. The resulting semidiscrete system leads to nonlinear differential algebraic equations of index one. A priori bounds are derived which guarantee the global existence of a unique solution. Finally, numerical experiments are presented which confirm the theoretical 4th-order convergence of the scheme. Time integration is performed with a three stage implicit Runge-Kutta scheme of 5th-order.