ARABIAN JOURNAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, vol.22, pp.99-109, 1997 (SCI-Expanded)
Burgers' equation is solved by a Petrov-Galerkin method using quadratic B-spline spatial finite elements. A linear recurrence relationship for the numerical solution of the resulting system of ordinary differential equations is obtained via a Crank-Nicolson approach involving a product approximation. Standard problems are solved to assess the properties of the algorithm.