A Compact Higher-Order Scheme for Two-Dimensional Unsteady Convection–Diffusion Equations

Abstract

In this paper, we study a compact higher-order scheme for the two-dimensional unsteady convection–diffusion problems using the nearly analytic discrete method (NADM), especially, focusing on the convection dominated-diffusion problems. The numerical scheme is constructed and the stability analysis is implemented. We find the order of accuracy of scheme is [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the size of time steps and [Formula: see text] the size of spacial steps, especially, making clear the relation between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is according to the different values of diffusion parameter [Formula: see text] through von Neumann stability analysis. The obtained numerical results for several benchmark problems show that our method makes progress in the numerical study of NADM for convection–diffusion equation and is to be effective and helpful particularly in computations for the convection dominated-diffusion equations and, furthermore, valuable in the numerical treatment of many real-world problems such as MHD natural convection flow.