Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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EFFICIENT NUMERICAL METHODS FOR THE KDV EQUATION

  • Received : 2011.09.13
  • Accepted : 2011.12.13
  • Published : 2011.12.25
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Abstract

We consider the second order Strang splitting method to approximate the solution to the KdV equation. The model equation is split into three sets of initial value problems containing convection and dispersal terms separately. TVD MUSCL or MUSCL scheme is applied to approximate the convection term and the second order centered difference method to approximate the dispersal term. In time stepping, explicit third order Runge-Kutta method is used to the equation containing convection term and implicit Crank-Nicolson method to the equation containing dispersal term to reduce the CFL restriction. Several numerical examples of weakly and strongly dispersive problems, which produce solitons or dispersive shock waves, or may show instabilities of the solution, are presented.

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