Numerical Solution Of Nonlinear Advection Diffusion Reaction Equation Using High-Order Compact Difference Method

In this paper, high-order compact difference method is used to solve the one-dimensional nonlinear advection diffusion reaction equation. The nonlinearity here is mainly reflected in the advection and reaction terms. Firstly, the diffusion term is discretized by using the fourth-order compact difference formula, the nonlinear advection term is approximated by using the fourth-order Pade formula of the first-order derivative, and the time derivative term is discretized by using the fourth-order backward differencing formula. An unconditionally stable five-step fourth-order fully implicit compact difference scheme is developed. This scheme has fourth-order accuracy in both time and space. Secondly, for the calculations of the start-up time steps, the time derivative term is discretized by the Crank-Nicolson method, and Richardson extrapolation formula is used to improve the accuracy in time direction from the second-order to the fourth-order. Thirdly, convergence and stability of the difference scheme in H-1 seminorm, L-infinity and L-2 norms, existence and uniqueness of the numerical solutions are proved, respectively. Fourthly, the Thomas algorithm is used to solve the nonlinear algebraic equations at each time step, and a time advancement algorithm with linearized iteration strategy is established. Finally, the accuracy, stability and efficiency of the present approach are verified by some numerical experiments. (C) 2021 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.