Septic B-Spline Collocation Method for Numerical Solution of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation

In this paper the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation is solved numerically by collocation method. The solution is approximated as a linear combination of septic B-spline functions. Applying the Von-Neumann stability analysis technique, we show that the method is unconditionally stable. The method is applied on some test examples, and the numerical results have been compared with the exact solutions. The global relative error and L∞ in the solutions show the efficiency of the method computationally.

• M. Zarebnia
• R. Parvaz

• Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
• Septic B-spline
• Collocation method
• Finite difference.

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