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Error Analysis in Numerical Methods

This document contains questions about error analysis for numerical methods used to solve partial differential equations. It addresses topics like stability analysis using the Von Neumann criteria, truncation errors from discretization, and stability of explicit and implicit methods for unsteady diffusion and convection problems in 1D and 2D. Stability is analyzed for schemes like explicit, implicit, Crank-Nicholson, upwind, and central difference. Courant number and its relation to stability of convection schemes is also discussed. Spatial and temporal truncation errors from approximations are analyzed.

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Error Analysis in Numerical Methods

This document contains questions about error analysis for numerical methods used to solve partial differential equations. It addresses topics like stability analysis using the Von Neumann criteria, truncation errors from discretization, and stability of explicit and implicit methods for unsteady diffusion and convection problems in 1D and 2D. Stability is analyzed for schemes like explicit, implicit, Crank-Nicholson, upwind, and central difference. Courant number and its relation to stability of convection schemes is also discussed. Spatial and temporal truncation errors from approximations are analyzed.

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ERROR ANALYSIS

PART-I Round-off errors and stability analysis


Que. 1. (A) Explain Von-Neumann criteria
(B) Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D explicit method for unsteady diffusion problem. Making suitable
assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on the stability of the
equation.
Que. 2. Show that explicit method is stable only if Peclet Number is greater than or equal to 2.
Que. 3. Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D implicit method for unsteady diffusion problem. Making suitable
assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on the stability of the
system.
Que. 4. Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D Crank-Nicholson method for unsteady diffusion problem. Making
suitable assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on the
stability of the system.
Que. 5. Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D central difference explicit scheme for unsteady state convection.
Making suitable assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on
the stability of the system. What is Lax Wendorff scheme?
Que. 6. Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D central difference implicit scheme for unsteady state convection.
Making suitable assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on
the stability of the system.
Que. 7. What is Courant Number? Why should it always lie between 0 and 1?
Que. 8. Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D upwind explicit scheme for unsteady state convection. Making suitable
assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on the stability of the
system.
Que. 9. Derive the expression for 1-D/2-D upwind implicit scheme for unsteady state convection. Making suitable
assumptions, carry out linearity analysis by application of Von Neumann criteria. Comment on the stability of the
system.
PART-II Truncation errors
Que. 10. What are spatial truncation errors? What assumptions induce them?
Que. 11. What is mean value approximation? What is the truncation error incurred due to it?
Que. 12. What is gradient approximation? What is the truncation error incurred due to it?
Que. 13. Find the temporal truncation error for implicit, explicit and Crank-Nicholson method.

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