FOURTH-ORDER ACCURATE FINITE DIFFERENCE SOLUTION OF THE TRANSIENT HEAT TRANSFER EQUATION
Keywords:
High-order compact finite difference scheme, Transient Diffusion, heat equationAbstract
In this paper a high-order compact solution is presented for the transient diffusion equation
subject to both homogeneous as well as insulated boundary conditions. The finite difference
scheme is fourth order accurate both in space and time. The central difference scheme is used to approximate the space derivatives. The higher order terms in 'the Taylor series expansion are approximated using the governing differential equations. The difference equations are integrated by applying a Runge-Kutta scheme. Numerical results are compared with exact solutions.
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