Petrov-Galerkin method with cubic B-splines for solving the MEW equation

Abstract

In the present paper, we introduce a numerical solution algorithm based on a Petrov-Galerkin method in which the element shape functions are cubic B-splines and the weight functions quadratic B-splines . The motion of a single solitary wave and interaction of two solitary waves are studied. Accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are discussed by computing the numerical conserved laws and $L_{2}$ , $L_{\infty }$ error norms. The obtained results show that the present method is a remarkably successful numerical technique for solving the modified equal width wave(MEW) equation. A linear stability analysis of the scheme shows that it is unconditionally stable.