Numerical solution of the Burgers’ equation by local discontinuous Galerkin method

In this paper, the Burgers’ equation is transformed into the linear diffusion equation by using the Hopf–Cole transformation. The obtained linear diffusion equation is discretized in space by the local discontinuous Galerkin method. The temporal discretization is accomplished by the total variation diminishing Runge–Kutta method. Numerical solutions are compared with the exact solution and the numerical solutions obtained by Adomian’s decomposition method, finite difference method, B-spline finite element method and boundary element method. The results show that the local discontinuous Galerkin method is one of the most efficient methods for solving the Burgers’ equation. Even with small viscosity coefficient, it can get the satisfied solution.     

Numerical solution of the Orr–Sommerfeld equation using the viscous Green function and split-Gaussian quadrature

We continue our study of the construction of numerical methods for solving two-point boundary value problems using Green functions, building on the successful use of split-Gauss-type quadrature schemes. Here we adapt the method for eigenvalue problems, in particular the Orr–Sommerfeld equation of hydrodynamic stability theory. Use of the Green function for the viscous part of the problem reduces the fourth-order ordinary differential equation to an integro-differential equation which we then discretize using the split-Gaussian quadrature and product integration approach of our earlier work along with pseudospectral differentiation matrices for the remaining differential operators. As the latter are only second-order the resulting discrete equations are much more stable than those obtained from the original differential equation. This permits us to obtain results for the standard test problem (plane Poiseuille flow at unit streamwise wavenumber and Reynolds number 10 000) that we believe are the most accurate to date.     

Numerical solution of the Painlevé V equation

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the fifth Painlevé equation is proposed. The difficulty of the problem is that the unknown function can have movable singular points of the pole type; moreover, the equation has singularities at the points where the solution vanishes or takes the value 1. The positions of all of these singularities are not a priori known and are determined in the process of solving the equation. The proposed method is based on the transition to auxiliary systems of differential equations in neighborhoods of the indicated points. The equations in these systems and their solutions have no singularities at the corresponding point and its neighborhood. Numerical results illustrating the potentials of this method are presented.     

Numerical solution of the Painlevé IV equation

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the fourth Painlevé equation is proposed. The difficulty of the problem is that the unknown function can have movable singular points of the pole type; moreover, the equation may have singularities at the points where the solution vanishes. The positions of poles and zeros of the solution are not a priori known and are determined in the process of solving the equation. The proposed method is based on the transition to auxiliary systems of differential equations in neighborhoods of the indicated points. The equations in these systems and their solutions have no singularities in the corresponding point and its neighborhood. Numerical results confirming the efficiency of this method are presented.     

Numerical solution of the Painlevé VI equation

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the sixth Painlevé equation is proposed. The difficulty of this problem, as well as the other Painlevé equations, is that the unknown function can have movable singular points of the pole type; moreover, the equation may have singularities at the points where the solution takes the values 0 or 1 or is equal to the independent variable. The positions of all of these singularities are not a priori known and are determined in the process of solving the equation. The proposed method is based on the transition to auxiliary systems of differential equations in neighborhoods of the indicated points. The equations in these systems and their solutions have no singularities at the corresponding point and its neighborhood. The main results of this paper are the derivation of the auxiliary equations and the formulation of transition criteria. Numerical results illustrating the potentials of this method are presented.     

A mesh-free method for the numerical solution of the KdV–Burgers equation

This paper formulates a simple classical radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation (Kansa) method for the numerical solution of the nonlinear dispersive and dissipative KdV–Burgers’ (KdVB) equation. The computed results show implementation of the method to nonlinear partial differential equations. This method has an edge over traditional methods such as finite-difference and finite element methods because it does not require a mesh to discretize the problem domain, and a set of scattered nodes in the domain of influence provided by initial data is required for the realization of the method. Accuracy of the method is assessed in terms of error norms _L2,_L∞$L_2\text{,}{L}_{\infty }$, number of nodes in the domain of influence, parameter dependent RBFs and time step length. Numerical experiments demonstrate accuracy and robustness of the method for solving nonlinear dispersive and dissipative problems.     

Numerical approximation of solution for the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

In this article, a compact finite difference scheme for the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations is studied. The scheme is proved to conserve the original conservative properties. Unconditional stability and convergence in maximum norm with order O(τ² + h⁴) are also proved by the discrete energy method. Finally, numerical results are provided to verify the theoretical analysis.     

1-Soliton solution of the coupled KdV equation and Gear–Grimshaw model

This paper carries out the integration of the coupled KdV equation with power law nonlinearity. The solitary wave ansatz is used to carry out the integration. The domain restrictions of the coefficients of nonlinear and dispersion terms fall out. The results are then supplemented by numerical simulations.     

On the solution of the Gellerstedt problem for the Lavrent’ev-Bitsadze equation

We study the solvability of the Gellerstedt problem for the Lavrent??ev-Bitsadze equation under an inhomogeneous boundary condition on the half-circle of the ellipticity domain of the equation, homogeneous boundary conditions on external, internal, and parallel side characteristics of the hyperbolicity domain of the equation, and the transmission conditions on the type change line of the equation.     

Well-posedness of the stochastic KdV–Burgers equation

We are interested in rigorously proving the invariance of white noise under the flow of a stochastic KdV–Burgers equation. This paper establishes a result in this direction. After smoothing the additive noise (by a fractional spatial derivative), we establish (almost sure) local well-posedness of the stochastic KdV–Burgers equation with white noise as initial data. Next we observe that spatial white noise is invariant under the projection of this system to the first N>0$N>0$ modes of the trigonometric basis. Finally, we prove a global well-posedness result under an additional smoothing of the noise.     

Optimal control of the viscous Camassa–Holm equation

This paper studies the problem of optimal control of the viscous Camassa–Holm equation. The existence and uniqueness of weak solution to the viscous Camassa–Holm equation are proved in a short interval. According to variational method, optimal control theories and distributed parameter system control theories, we can deduce that the norm of solution is related to the control item and initial value in the special Hilbert space. The optimal control of the viscous Camassa–Holm equation under boundary condition is given and the existence of optimal solution to the viscous Camassa–Holm equation is proved.     

Multi-soliton solution,rational solution of the Boussinesq–Burgers equations

In this paper we consider the Boussinesq–Burgers equations and establish the transformation which turns the Boussinesq–Burgers equations into the single nonlinear partial differential equation, then we obtain an auto-Bäcklund transformation and abundant new exact solutions, including the multi-solitary wave solution and the rational series solutions. Besides the new trigonometric function periodic solutions are obtained by using the generalized tan h method.     

The stability of the viscous shock profiles of the burgers’ equation with a fourth order viscosity

We establish the stability of the viscous shock profiles of the Burgers' equation with fourth order viscosity in a weighted Sobolev space. In the course of our investigation, we develop a new method for dealing with the continuous spectrum of certain types of ordinary and partial differential operators in Hilbert spaces. This method allows us to get results in spaces that are related to L² rather than forcing us to work in spaces related to L^∞.     

On a nonhomogeneous Burgers’ equation

In this paper the Cauchy problem for the following nonhomogeneous Burgers’ equation is considered : (1)u _t +uu _x =μu _xx −kx,x ∈R,t > 0, where μ and k are positive constants. Since the nonhomogeneous term kx does not belong to any L^p(R) space, this type of equation is beyond usual Sobolev framework in some sense. By Hopf-Cole transformation, (1) takes the form (2)ϕ _t −ϕ _xx = −x ² ϕ. With the help of the Hermite polynomials and their properties, (1) and (2) are solved exactly. Moreover, the large time behavior of the solutions is also considered, similar to the discussion in Hopf’s paper. Especially, we observe that the nonhomogeneous Burgers’ equation (1) is nonlinearly unstable.     

Asymptotics of the solution of Laplace’s equation with mixed boundary conditions

A uniform asymptotic expansion of the solution of a two-dimensional elliptic problem with mixed boundary conditions is found. A physical application of the result is discussed.     

Existence of travelling wavefronts of the KdV–Burgers equation

In this letter, we study the existence of travelling wavefronts of the KdV–Burgers equation from a monotone dynamical systems point of view. For any constant wave velocity, we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence. The conditions under which some exact travelling wavefronts have been found are special cases of ours.     

Optimal control of the viscous generalized Camassa–Holm equation

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for the viscous generalized Camassa–Holm equation. We deduce the existence and uniqueness of weak solution to the viscous generalized Camassa–Holm equation in a short interval by using Galerkin method. Then, by using optimal control theories and distributed parameter system control theories, the optimal control of the viscous generalized Camassa–Holm equation under boundary condition is given and the existence of optimal solution to the viscous generalized Camassa–Holm equation is proved.