Numerical simulation of second-order hyperbolic telegraph type equations with variable coefficients

Abstract

In this article, the authors proposed a numerical scheme based on Crank–Nicolson finite difference scheme and Haar wavelets to find numerical solutions of different types of second order hyperbolic telegraph equations (i.e. telegraph equation with constant coefficients, with variable coefficients, and singular telegraph equation). This work is an extension of the scheme by Jiwari (2012) for hyperbolic equations. The use of Haar basis function is made with multiresolution analysis to get the fast and accurate results on collocation points. The convergence of the proposed scheme is proved by doing its error analysis. Four test examples are considered to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the scheme. The scheme is easy and very suitable for computer implementation and provides numerical solutions close to the exact solutions and available in the literature.