A New High-Order Approximation for the Solution of Two-Space-Dimensional Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equations.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2011, Article ID 420608, 22 pages doi:10.1155/2011/420608 Research Article A New High-Order Approximation for the Solution of Two-Space-Dimensional Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equations R. K. Mohanty1 and Suruchi Singh1, 2 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India 2 Department of Mathematics, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 039, India Correspondence should be addressed to R. K. Mohanty, rmohanty@maths.du.ac.in Received 31 March 2011; Revised 13 June 2011; Accepted 5 July 2011 Academic Editor: Ricardo Weder Copyright q 2011 R. K. Mohanty and S. Singh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. we propose a new high-order approximation for the solution of two-space-dimensional quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equation of the form utt Ax, y, t, uuxx B x, y, t, uuyy g x, y, t, u, u , u , u , 0 x, y 1, t 0 subject to appropriate initial and Dirichlet boundary conditions , x y t where k 0 and h 0 are mesh sizes in time and space directions, respectively. We use only five evaluations of the function g as compared to seven evaluations of the same function discussed by Mohanty et al., 1996 and 2001. We describe the derivation procedure in details and also discuss how our formulation is able to handle the wave equation in polar coordinates. The proposed method when applied to a linear hyperbolic equation is also shown to be unconditionally stable. Some examples and their numerical results are provided to justify t