A method of characteristics solving the initial-boundary value problem of a hyperbolic differential equation of second order

Summary The ALGOL-procedure¹char2 presented in this paper can be applied to the initial or initial-boundary value problem of a quasilinear hyperbolic differential equation of second order. A method of characteristics is combined with extrapolation to the limit. Thus, the results are very accurate. The same accuracy can also be obtained if the initial values are only piecewise smooth.Editor's Note: In this fascile, prepublication of algorithms from the Approximation series of the Handbook for Automatic Computation is continued. Algorithms are published in ALGOL 60 reference language as approved by the IFIP. Contributions in this series should be styled after the most recently published ones