Traveling-wave solutions for a discrete Burgers equation with nonlinear diffusion

  • Authors:
  • Ronald E. Mickens

  • Affiliations:
  • Clark Atlanta University, Department of Physics, Atlanta, GA 30314, USA

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We construct a nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) scheme for a Burgers type partial differential equation (PDE) for which the diffusion coefficient has a linear dependence on the dependent variable. After a study of this PDE's traveling-wave solutions, we examine the corresponding properties of the NSFD construction. Our work demonstrates the dynamic consistency of the discretization.