A Comparison of Recent Methods for Solving a Model 1D Convection Diffusion Equation

In this paper we study some numerical methods to solve a model one-dimensional convection–diffusion equation. The semi-discretisation of the space variable results into a system of ordinary differential equations and the solution of the latter involves the evaluation of a matrix exponent. Since the calculation of this term is computationally expensive, we study some methods based on Krylov subspace and on Restrictive Taylor series approximation respectively. We also consider the Chebyshev Pseudospectral collocation method to do the spatial discretisation and we present the numerical solution obtained by these methods.

• Ashvin Gopaul
• Jayrani Cheeneebash
• Kamleshsing Baurhoo

• Chebyshev Pseudospectral collocation method
• convection-diffusion equation
• restrictive Taylor approximation.

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