burgers_steady_viscous, a MATLAB code 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.
The function u(x) is to be solved for in the equation:
u * du/dx = nu * d^2u/dx^2for 0 < nu, a <= x <= b.
Problem data includes the endpoints a and b, the Dirichlet boundary values u(a) = alpha, u(b) = beta, and the value of the viscosity nu.
We can discretize the problem by specifying a sequence of n (perhaps equally spaced) points x, and applying standard finite difference approximations to the derivatives in the continuous equation. A piecewise linear discretization of the solution can then be computed by bsv().
When alpha and beta have opposite sign, the solution must cross the x-axis (at least once). The location x0 of this crossing is of interest, and can be computed by bsv_crossing().
The crossing location may be quite susceptible to the values of alpha and beta.
The conservative form of the equation is
1/2 * d(u^2)/dx = nu * d^2u/dx^2and this is the version we discretize. The residual associated with node i is then
f(i) = 1/2 * ( u(i+1)^2 - u(i-1)^2 / ( 2 * dx ) - nu * ( u(i-1) - 2 * u(i) + u(i+1) ) / dx^2and we can apply Newton's method to seek a solution u for which f is zero.
The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.
burgers_steady_viscous is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version.
burgers, a dataset directory which contains some solutions to the viscous Burgers equation.
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