An improvised collocation algorithm to solve generalized Burgers’–Huxley equation

Abstract

In the proposed work, an improvised collocation technique with cubic B-spline as basis functions is applied to obtain the numerical solution of non-linear generalized Burgers’–Huxley equation, which has application in the soliton theory. In this technique, posteriori corrections are made to the cubic B-spline interpolant and its higher-order derivatives, which leads to enhancement in the order of convergence in the spatial domain. The temporal domain is discretized using a weighted finite difference scheme, to obtain the solution at each time level and the spatial domain is discretized using the improvised cubic B-spline collocation method. The stability analysis is carried out using the von Neumann scheme and the technique is found to be unconditionally stable. The theoretical proof of the order of convergence is discussed in detail using Green’s function approach. The $$L_{2}$$ L 2 , $$L_{\infty }$$ L ∞ , and absolute error norms are calculated as well as compared with the results available in the literature, which shows the improvement and efficacy of the proposed technique over the existing ones.