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Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics ›› 2015, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 145-158.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-3085.2015.01.014

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A Two-level Finite Difference Method for Burger's Equation

Zulhumar Kadir1,2,   LI Ning2,  HUANG Peng-zhan2,  FENG Xin-long2   

  1. 1- Department of Mathematics, Kashgar Teacher's College, Kashgar 844006
    2- College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046
  • Received:2013-06-28 Accepted:2013-12-30 Online:2015-02-15 Published:2015-04-15
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61163027); the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (212197); the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013M530438).

Abstract:

In this paper, a two-level finite difference scheme is presented for the numerical approximation of Burger's equation. The full nonlinear problem is solved on a coarse grid of size $H$, and a linear problem is solved on a fine mesh with mesh size $h$. The new difference scheme, which is the implicit one with unconditional stability and easy computation. The method we study provides an approximate solution with nearly the same error as the usual one-level solution, which involves solving one large nonlinear problem on a fine mesh with mesh size $h$. Hence, our method is capable of significantly saving computational time.

Key words: Burger's equation, two-level scheme, linearization approximation, linearized Crank-Nicolson scheme, finite difference method

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