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A fast numerical method for solving coupled Burgers' equations
Author(s) -
Shi Feng,
Zheng Haibiao,
Cao Yong,
Li Jingzhi,
Zhao Ren
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
numerical methods for partial differential equations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.901
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1098-2426
pISSN - 0749-159X
DOI - 10.1002/num.22160
Subject(s) - mathematics , discretization , nonlinear system , discontinuous galerkin method , convection–diffusion equation , burgers' equation , galerkin method , finite element method , partial differential equation , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
A new fast numerical scheme is proposed for solving time‐dependent coupled Burgers' equations. The idea of operator splitting is used to decompose the original problem into nonlinear pure convection subproblems and diffusion subproblems at each time step. Using Taylor's expansion, the nonlinearity in convection subproblems is explicitly treated by resolving a linear convection system with artificial inflow boundary conditions that can be independently solved. A multistep technique is proposed to rescue the possible instability caused by the explicit treatment of the convection system. Meanwhile, the diffusion subproblems are always self‐adjoint and coercive at each time step, and they can be efficiently solved by some existing preconditioned iterative solvers like the preconditioned conjugate galerkin method, and so forth. With the help of finite element discretization, all the major stiffness matrices remain invariant during the time marching process, which makes the present approach extremely fast for the time‐dependent nonlinear problems. Finally, several numerical examples are performed to verify the stability, convergence and performance of the new method.© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 33: 1823–1838, 2017