An explicit finite difference scheme based on the modified method of characteristics for solving convection-diffusion problems in one space dimension

DOI10.1002/num.1690040203zbMath0643.65055MaRDI QIDQ3785852

Mary Fanett Wheeler, Kyriacos Zygourakis, George Thomaidis

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/num.1690040203

zbMATH Keywords

method of characteristics; explicit finite difference scheme; convection dominated convection-diffusion problems; Forward finite differences; modelling radial miscible oil displacement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65M12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M15: Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M20: Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

35L15: Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations

76R05: Forced convection

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