BURGERS_TIME_INVISCID
Time-Dependent Inviscid Burgers Equation


BURGERS_TIME_INVISCID is a MATLAB library which solves the time-dependent inviscid Burgers equation with one of six solution methods selected by the user, by Mikal Landajuela.

The function u(x,t) is to be solved for in the equation:

du/dt + u * du/dx = 0
for 0 < nu, a <= x <= b, 0 <= t <= t_max with initial condition
u(x,tmin) = uinit(x);
and fixed Dirichlet conditions
u(a,t) = alpha, u(b,t) = beta

Problem data includes the spatial endpoints a and b, the Dirichlet boundary values u(a,t) = alpha, u(b,t) = beta, and the final time t_max.

The conservative form of the equation is

du/dt + 1/2 * d(u^2)/dx = 0

There are six solution methods provided in this package:

  1. Upwind nonconservative;
  2. Upwind conservative;
  3. Lax Friedrichs;
  4. Lax Wendroff;
  5. MacCormack;
  6. Godunov.
and the user selects one such method for the computation.

The problem specification requires an initial condition, to be determined by a MATLAB function. Five such functions are provided, and the user is free to write a new one:

  1. ic_expansion.m, an expansion wave;
  2. ic_gaussian.m, a gaussian;
  3. ic_shock.m, a shock wave;
  4. ic_spike.m, a spike;
  5. ic_spline.m, a spline through data points.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

BURGERS, a dataset directory which contains some solutions to the viscous Burgers equation.

BURGERS_CHARACTERISTICS, a MATHEMATICA program which solves the time dependent inviscid Burgers equation using the method of characteristics, by Mikel Landajuela.

BURGERS_SOLUTION, a MATLAB library which evaluates an exact solution of the time-dependent 1D viscous Burgers equation.

BURGERS_STEADY_VISCOUS, a MATLAB library which solves the steady (time-independent) viscous Burgers equation using a finite difference discretization of the conservative form of the equation, and then applying Newton's method to solve the resulting nonlinear system.

BURGERS_TIME_VISCOUS, a MATLAB library which solves the time-dependent viscous Burgers equation using a finite difference discretization of the conservative form of the equation.

FD1D_BURGERS_LAX, a MATLAB program which applies the finite difference method and the Lax-Wendroff method to solve the non-viscous Burgers equation in one spatial dimension and time.

FD1D_BURGERS_LEAP, a MATLAB program which applies the finite difference method and the leapfrog approach to solve the non-viscous time-dependent Burgers equation in one spatial dimension.

PCE_BURGERS, a MATLAB program which defines and solves a version of the time-dependent viscous Burgers equation, with uncertain viscosity, using a polynomial chaos expansion in terms of Hermite polynomials, by Gianluca Iaccarino.

Reference:

  1. Daniel Zwillinger,
    Handbook of Differential Equations,
    Academic Press, 1997,
    ISBN: 0127843965,
    LC: QA371.Z88.

Source Code:

Examples and Tests:

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Last revised on 24 April 2012.