A New Efficient Method for the Numerical Solution of Linear Time-Dependent Partial Differential Equations

Abstract

This paper presents a new efficient method for the numerical solution of a linear time-dependent partial differential equation. The proposed technique includes the collocation method with Legendre wavelets for spatial discretization and the three-step Taylor method for time discretization. This procedure is third-order accurate in time. A comparative study between the proposed method and the one-step wavelet collocation method is provided. In order to verify the stability of these methods, asymptotic stability analysis is employed. Numerical illustrations are investigated to show the reliability and efficiency of the proposed method. An important property of the presented method is that unlike the one-step wavelet collocation method, it is not necessary to choose a small time step to achieve stability.

Keywords

• Legendre wavelets
• collocation method
• three-step Taylor method
• asymptotic stability
• time-dependent partial differential equations