TY - JOUR AB - Purpose This paper aims to find the numerical solution of planar and non-planar Burgers’ equation and analysis of the shock behave.Design/methodology/approach First, the authors discritize the time-dependent term using Crank–Nicholson finite difference approximation and use quasilinearization to linearize the nonlinear term then apply Scale-2 Haar wavelets for space integration. After applying this scheme on partial differential, the equation transforms into a system of algebraic equation. Then, the system of equation is solved using Gauss elimination method.Findings Present method is the extension of the method (Jiwari, 2012). The numerical solutions using Scale-2 Haar wavelets prove that the proposed method is reliable for planar and non-planar nonlinear Burgers’ equation and yields results better than other methods and compatible with the exact solutions.Originality/value The numerical results for non-planar Burgers’ equation are very sparse. In the present paper, the authors identify where the shock wave and discontinuity occur in planar and non-planar Burgers’' equation. VL - 27 IS - 8 SN - 0961-5539 DO - 10.1108/HFF-05-2016-0188 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-05-2016-0188 AU - Pandit Sapna AU - Kumar Manoj AU - Mohapatra R.N. AU - Alshomrani Ali Saleh PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - Shock waves analysis of planar and non planar nonlinear Burgers’ equation using Scale-2 Haar wavelets T2 - International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 1814 EP - 1850 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -