A Mickens-type monotone discretization for bounded travelling-wave solutions of a Burgers–Fisher partial differential equation

Abstract

We present a nonlinear method to approximate solutions of a Burgers–Huxley equation with generalized advection factor and logistic reaction. The equation under investigation possesses travelling-wave solutions that are temporally and spatially monotone functions; the travelling-wave fronts considered are bounded and connect asymptotically the stationary solutions of the model. For the linear regime, the method is consistent of first order in time and second order in space. In the nonlinear scenario, we investigate conditions under which bounded initial profiles evolve into bounded new approximations. The main results report on parametric conditions that guarantee the boundedness, the positivity and the monotonicity preservation of the method. As a consequence, our recursive method is capable of preserving the temporal and the spatial monotonicity of the solutions. We provide simulations that show that, indeed, our technique preserves the positivity, the boundedness and the temporal and spatial monotonicity of solutions.