Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Department of Mechanical Engineering

ME 630A, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Assignment-1

In order to investigate and analyze the properties of numerical schemes, often

the following scalar (one-dimensional) convection equation is considered:

 
+ =0 or in short notation: t + x = 0
t x

Here  is any scalar parameter. The spatial derivative is approximated by a

central difference scheme on an equidistant grid with x = Constant . Please
explain the following time-marching schemes based on the scalar transport
equation:

A : explicit Euler scheme

B : implicit Euler scheme
C: three-point backward scheme (implicit)
D: Lax-Keller scheme (explicit)
E: Lax-Wendroff scheme (explicit)
F: Mac Cormack scheme (predictor-corrector, explicit)
G: Low- storage Runge-Kutta scheme (3 sub-steps, explicit)

Furthermore, the tasks are the following:

• Please determine the spatial and temporal truncation error of scheme A

and D. based on Taylor series expansions. Prove the consistency of the
schemes.
• Explain the stability analysis of von Neumann based on scheme A and B.