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Article
Publication date: 13 May 2020

Mehdi Dehghan and Vahid Mohammadi

This study aims to apply a numerical meshless method, namely, the boundary knot method (BKM) combined with the meshless analog equation method (MAEM) in space and use a…

Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to apply a numerical meshless method, namely, the boundary knot method (BKM) combined with the meshless analog equation method (MAEM) in space and use a semi-implicit scheme in time for finding a new numerical solution of the advection–reaction–diffusion and reaction–diffusion systems in two-dimensional spaces, which arise in biology.

Design/methodology/approach

First, the BKM is applied to approximate the spatial variables of the studied mathematical models. Then, this study derives fully discrete scheme of the studied models using a semi-implicit scheme based on Crank–Nicolson idea, which gives a linear system of algebraic equations with a non-square matrix per time step that is solved by the singular value decomposition. The proposed approach approximates the solution of a given partial differential equation using particular and homogeneous solutions and without considering the fundamental solutions of the proposed equations.

Findings

This study reports some numerical simulations for showing the ability of the presented technique in solving the studied mathematical models arising in biology. The obtained results by the developed numerical scheme are in good agreement with the results reported in the literature. Besides, a simulation of the proposed model is done on buttery shape domain in two-dimensional space.

Originality/value

This study develops the BKM combined with MAEM for solving the coupled systems of (advection) reaction–diffusion equations in two-dimensional spaces. Besides, it does not need the fundamental solution of the mathematical models studied here, which omits any difficulties.

Article
Publication date: 17 November 2021

Mehdi Dehghan, Baharak Hooshyarfarzin and Mostafa Abbaszadeh

This study aims to use the polynomial approximation method based on the Pascal polynomial basis for obtaining the numerical solutions of partial differential equations. Moreover…

Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to use the polynomial approximation method based on the Pascal polynomial basis for obtaining the numerical solutions of partial differential equations. Moreover, this method does not require establishing grids in the computational domain.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, the authors present a meshfree method based on Pascal polynomial expansion for the numerical solution of the Sobolev equation. In general, Sobolev-type equations have several applications in physics and mechanical engineering.

Findings

The authors use the Crank-Nicolson scheme to discrete the time variable and the Pascal polynomial-based (PPB) method for discretizing the spatial variables. But it is clear that increasing the value of the final time or number of time steps, will bear a lot of costs during numerical simulations. An important purpose of this paper is to reduce the execution time for applying the PPB method. To reach this aim, the proper orthogonal decomposition technique has been combined with the PPB method.

Originality/value

The developed procedure is tested on various examples of one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional versions of the governed equation on the rectangular and irregular domains to check its accuracy and validity.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 15 August 2019

Mehdi Dehghan, Mostafa Abbaszadeh, Amirreza Khodadadian and Clemens Heitzinger

The current paper aims to develop a reduced order discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the generalized Swift–Hohenberg equation with application in biological science and…

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Purpose

The current paper aims to develop a reduced order discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the generalized Swift–Hohenberg equation with application in biological science and mechanical engineering. The generalized Swift–Hohenberg equation is a fourth-order PDE; thus, this paper uses the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for it.

Design/methodology/approach

At first, the spatial direction has been discretized by the LDG technique, as this process results in a nonlinear system of equations based on the time variable. Thus, to achieve more accurate outcomes, this paper uses an exponential time differencing scheme for solving the obtained system of ordinary differential equations. Finally, to decrease the used CPU time, this study combines the proper orthogonal decomposition approach with the LDG method and obtains a reduced order LDG method. The circular and rectangular computational domains have been selected to solve the generalized Swift–Hohenberg equation. Furthermore, the energy stability for the semi-discrete LDG scheme has been discussed.

Findings

The results show that the new numerical procedure has not only suitable and acceptable accuracy but also less computational cost compared to the local DG without the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) approach.

Originality/value

The local DG technique is an efficient numerical procedure for solving models in the fluid flow. The current paper combines the POD approach and the local LDG technique to solve the generalized Swift–Hohenberg equation with application in the fluid mechanics. In the new technique, the computational cost and the used CPU time of the local DG have been reduced.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 29 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 22 October 2018

Hadi Minbashian, Hojatollah Adibi and Mehdi Dehghan

This paper aims to propose an adaptive method for the numerical solution of the shallow water equations (SWEs). The authors provide an arbitrary high-order method using high-order…

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Purpose

This paper aims to propose an adaptive method for the numerical solution of the shallow water equations (SWEs). The authors provide an arbitrary high-order method using high-order spline wavelets. Furthermore, they use a non-linear shock capturing (SC) diffusion which removes the necessity of post-processing.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors use a space-time weak formulation of SWEs which exploits continuous Galerkin (cG) in space and discontinuous Galerkin (dG) in time allowing time stepping, also known as cGdG. Such formulations along with SC term have recently been proved to ensure the stability of fully discrete schemes without scarifying the accuracy. However, the resulting scheme is expensive in terms of number of degrees of freedom (DoFs). By using natural adaptivity of wavelet expansions, the authors devise an adaptive algorithm to reduce the number of DoFs.

Findings

The proposed algorithm uses DoFs in a dynamic way to capture the shocks in all time steps while keeping the representation of approximate solution sparse. The performance of the proposed scheme is shown through some numerical examples.

Originality/value

An incorporation of wavelets for adaptivity in space-time weak formulations applied for SWEs is proposed.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 28 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 8 June 2012

Mehdi Dehghan and Jalil Manafian Heris

This paper aims to show that the variational iteration method (VIM) and the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) are powerful and suitable methods to solve the Fornberg‐Whitham…

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Purpose

This paper aims to show that the variational iteration method (VIM) and the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) are powerful and suitable methods to solve the Fornberg‐Whitham equation.

Design/methodology/approach

Using HPM the explicit exact solution is calculated in the form of a quickly convergent series with easily computable components. Also, by using VIM the analytical results of this equation have been obtained in terms of convergent series with easily computable components.

Findings

Numerical solutions obtained by these methods are compared with the exact solutions, revealing that the obtained solutions are of high accuracy.

Originality/value

Also the results show that the introduced methods are efficient tools for solving the nonlinear partial differential equations.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 3 August 2012

Mehdi Dehghan, Jalil Manafian and Abbas Saadatmandi

Rosenau‐Hyman equation was discovered as a simplified model to study the role of nonlinear dispersion on pattern formation in liquid drops. Also, this equation has important roles…

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Purpose

Rosenau‐Hyman equation was discovered as a simplified model to study the role of nonlinear dispersion on pattern formation in liquid drops. Also, this equation has important roles in the modelling of various problems in physics and engineering. The purpose of this paper is to present the solution of Rosenau‐Hyman equation.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper aims to present the solution of the Rosenau‐Hyman equation by means of semi‐analytical approaches which are based on the homotopy perturbation method (HPM), variational iteration method (VIM) and Adomian decomposition method (ADM).

Findings

These techniques reduce the volume of calculations by not requiring discretization of the variables, linearization or small perturbations. Numerical solutions obtained by these methods are compared with the exact solutions, revealing that the obtained solutions are of high accuracy. These results reveal that the proposed methods are very effective and simple to perform.

Originality/value

Efficient techniques are developed to find the solution of an important equation.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 22 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 28 October 2014

Akbar Mohebbi, Mostafa Abbaszadeh and Mehdi Dehghan

The purpose of this paper is to show that the meshless method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation method is powerful, suitable and simple for solving one and two…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to show that the meshless method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation method is powerful, suitable and simple for solving one and two dimensional time fractional telegraph equation.

Design/methodology/approach

In this method the authors first approximate the time fractional derivatives of mentioned equation by two schemes of orders O(τ3−α) and O(τ2−α), 1/2<α<1, then the authors will use the Kansa approach to approximate the spatial derivatives.

Findings

The results of numerical experiments are compared with analytical solution, revealing that the obtained numerical solutions have acceptance accuracy.

Originality/value

The results show that the meshless method based on the RBFs and collocation approach is also suitable for the treatment of the time fractional telegraph equation.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 24 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 6 January 2012

S.A. Yousefi, Zahra Barikbin and Mehdi Dehghan

The purpose of this paper is to implement the Ritz‐Galerkin method in Bernstein polynomial basis to give approximation solution of a parabolic partial differential equation with…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to implement the Ritz‐Galerkin method in Bernstein polynomial basis to give approximation solution of a parabolic partial differential equation with non‐local boundary conditions.

Design/methodology/approach

The properties of Bernstein polynomial and Ritz‐Galerkin method are first presented, then the Ritz‐Galerkin method is utilized to reduce the given parabolic partial differential equation to the solution of algebraic equations. Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the new technique.

Findings

The authors applied the method presented in this paper and solved three test problems.

Originality/value

This is the first time that the Ritz‐Galerkin method in Bernstein polynomial basis is employed to solve the model investigated in the current paper.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 29 March 2011

Mehdi Dehghan, Mehdi Tatari and Asma Azizi

The purpose of this paper is to consider the well‐known Falkner‐Skan equation. This equation appears in the modelling of various phenomena in physics and engineering.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to consider the well‐known Falkner‐Skan equation. This equation appears in the modelling of various phenomena in physics and engineering.

Design/methodology/approach

The He's variational iteration method which is a very efficient tool for solving different kinds of problems, is employed for solving this problem.

Findings

Some other approaches are introduced to compare the efficiency of the new procedure. Several test examples are given to show the advantages of the present method over other existing techniques.

Originality/value

In this paper, a new and efficient technique is proposed to solve the Falkner‐Skan equation.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 21 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 9 August 2011

Mehdi Dehghan, Jalil Manafian Heris and Abbas Saadatmandi

The purpose of this paper is to use He's Exp‐function method (EFM) to construct solitary and soliton solutions of the nonlinear evolution equation.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to use He's Exp‐function method (EFM) to construct solitary and soliton solutions of the nonlinear evolution equation.

Design/methodology/approach

This technique is straightforward and simple to use and is a powerful method to overcome some difficulties in the nonlinear problems.

Findings

This method is developed for searching exact traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear partial differential equations. The EFM presents a wider applicability for handling nonlinear wave equations.

Originality/value

The paper shows that EFM, with the help of symbolic computation, provides a straightforward and powerful mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations. Application of EFM to Fitzhugh‐Nagumo equation illustrates its effectiveness.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 21 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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