Error function scheme for Burgers' equation

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the development of a new scheme to solve the one-dimensional time-dependent Burgers' equation locally on sub-domains, using similarity reductions for partial differential equations. Each sub-domain is divided into three grid points. The ordinary differential equation deduced from the similarity reduction can be integrated and is then used to approximate the flux vector in the Burgers' equation. The arbitrary constants in the analytical solution of the similarity equation can be determined in terms of the dependent variables at the grid points in each sub-domain. This approach eliminates the difficulties associated with boundary conditions for the similarity reductions over the whole solution domain. Numerical results are obtained for two different test cases and are compared with other numerical results.

Keywords:

• Burgers' equation
• Finite difference methods
• Similarity reductions