摘要
We propose a new method for numerical solution of the third-order differential equations.The key idea is to use relaxation approximation to transform the nonlinear third-order differential equation to a semilinear second-order differential system with a source term and a relaxation parameter.The relaxation system has linear characteristic variables and can be numerically solved without relying on Riemann problem solvers or linear iterations.A non-oscillatory finite volume method for the relaxation system is developed.The method is uniformly accurate for all relaxation rates.Numerical results are shown for some nonlinear problems such as the Korteweg-de Vires equation.Our method demonstrated the capability of accurately capturing soliton wave phenomena.
