A new spline in compression method of order four in space and two in time based on half-step grid points for the solution of the system of 1D quasi-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new three-level implicit method based on a half-step spline in compression method of order two in time and order four in space for the solution of one-space dimensional quasi-linear hyperbolic partial differential equation of the form u_{tt} =A(x,t,u)u_{xx} +f(x,t,u,u_{x},u_{t}). We describe spline in compression approximations and their properties using two half-step grid points. The new method for one-dimensional quasi-linear hyperbolic equation is obtained directly from the consistency condition. In this method we use three grid points for the unknown function u(x,t) and two half-step points for the known variable ‘x’ in x-direction. The proposed method, when applied to a linear test equation, is shown to be unconditionally stable. We have also established the stability condition to solve a linear fourth-order hyperbolic partial differential equation. Our method is directly applicable to solve hyperbolic equations irrespective of the coordinate system, which is the main advantage of our work. The proposed method for a scalar equation is extended to solve the system of quasi-linear hyperbolic equations. To assess the validity and accuracy, the proposed method is applied to solve several benchmark problems, and numerical results are provided to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method.