Cubic B-spline quasi-interpolation and an application to numerical solution of generalized Burgers-Huxley equation

• Main Authors: Lan-Yin Sun, Chun-Gang Zhu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-11-01
• Series: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814020971061

Nonlinear partial differential equations are widely studied in Applied Mathematics and Physics. The generalized Burgers-Huxley equations play important roles in different nonlinear physics mechanisms. In this paper, we develop a kind of cubic B-spline quasi-interpolation which is used to solve Burgers-Huxley equations. Firstly, the cubic B-spline quasi-interpolation is presented. Next we get the numerical scheme by using the derivative of the quasi-interpolation to approximate the spatial derivative of the dependent variable and modified Euler scheme to approximate the time derivative of the dependent variable. Moreover, the efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated by the agreement between the numerical solution and the analytical solution which indicate the numerical scheme is quite acceptable.