Question 2

𝑑𝜙
= −2𝑡𝜙 2
𝑑𝑡

𝜙 𝑡=0 =1

• Solution to this nonlinear ODE is obtained using Explicit Euler Method, Implicit Euler Method, Crank-
Nicolson Method and Low Storage 3rd Order Runge-Kutta Method.

• For implicit methods, the value of phi(n+1) is evaluated using Newton-Raphson Method

• Results obtained for time steps of 2.1, 0.6,0.1 are as follows: