Exact analysis of nonlinear instability in a discrete Burgers' equation

Abstract A family of explicit nonlinear numerical schemes for Burgers' equation is derived by means of a discrete version of the Hopf-Cole transformation. Exact nonlinear stability conditions for these schemes are then found, and for one particular scheme the exact stability criteria are compared to the conventional linearized stability condition.

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