Purely dispersive partial differential equations such as the Korteweg–de Vries equation, the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and higher dimensional generalizations thereof can have solutions which develop a zone of rapid modulated oscillations in the region where the corresponding dispersionless equations have shocks or blow-up. To numerically study such phenomena, fourth order time-stepping in...

In this paper, using a model transformation approach a system of linear delay differential equations (DDEs) with multiple delays is converted to a non-delayed initial value problem. The variational iteration method (VIM) is then applied to obtain the approximate analytical solutions. Numerical results are given for several examples involving scalar and second order systems. Comparisons with the...

We present benchmark simulations for the 8:1 di erentially heated cavity problem, the focus of a special session at the rst MIT conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics in June 2001. The numerical scheme is a fourth-order nite di erence method based on the vorticity-stream function formulation of the Boussinesq equations. The momentum equation is discretized by a compact scheme wit...

In this work we discuss a class of defect correction methods which is easily adapted to create parallel time integrators for multi-core architectures and is ideally suited for developing methods which can be order adaptive in time. The method is based on Integral Deferred Correction (IDC), which was itself motivated by Spectral Deferred Correction by Dutt, Greengard and Rokhlin (BIT-2000). The ...

Three new Runge-Kutta methods are presented for numerical integration of systems of linear inhomogeneous ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with constant coefficients. Such ODEs arise in the numerical solution of the partial differential equations governing linear wave phenomena. The restriction to linear ODEs with constant coefficients reduces the number of conditions which the coefficient...

A high-order accurate, finite-difference method for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations is presented. Fourth-order accurate discretizations of the convective and viscous fluxes are obtained on staggered meshes using explicit or compact finite-difference formulas. High-order accuracy in time is obtained by marching the solution with Runge–Kutta methods. The incom...