An IMEX-RK scheme for capturing similarity solutions in the multidimensional Burgers’s equation

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRX064zbMATH Open1483.65147arXiv1612.04127OpenAlexW2563666993MaRDI QIDQ5113338FDOQ5113338

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a new, simple and efficient numerical scheme for the implementation of the freezing method for capturing similarity solutions in partial differential equations. The scheme is based on an IMEX-Runge-Kutta approach for a method of lines (semi-)discretization of the freezing partial differential algebraic equation (PDAE). We prove second order convergence for the time discretization at smooth solutions in the ODE-sense and we present numerical experiments that show second order convergence for the full discretization of the PDAE. As an example serves the multi-dimensional Burgers' equation. By considering very different sizes of viscosity, Burgers' equation can be considered as a prototypical example of general coupled hyperbolic-parabolic PDEs. Numerical experiments show that our method works perfectly well for all sizes of viscosity, suggesting that the scheme is indeed suitable for capturing similarity solutions in general hyperbolic-parabolic PDEs by direct forward simulation with the freezing method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04127

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Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20)

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