TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– This paper aims to present a numerical solution of non‐linear Burger's equation using differential quadrature method based on sinc functions.Design/methodology/approach– Sinc Differential Quadrature Method is used for space discretization and four stage Runge‐Kutta algorithm is used for time discretization. A rate of convergency analysis is also performed for shock‐like solution. Numerical stability analysis is performed.Findings– Sinc Differential Quadrature Method generates more accurate solutions of Burgers' equation when compared with the other methods.Originality/value– This combination, Sinc Differential Quadrature and Runge‐Kutta of order four, has not been used to obtain numerical solutions of Burgers' equation. VL - 28 IS - 6 SN - 0264-4401 DO - 10.1108/02644401111154619 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02644401111154619 AU - Korkmaz Alper AU - Dağ İdris PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/01/01 TI - Shock wave simulations using Sinc Differential Quadrature Method T2 - Engineering Computations PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 654 EP - 674 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -