BASIC ASPECTS OF DISCRETIZATION:

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD

APPROACH USING TAYLOR SERIES
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.
• BASIC ASPECTS OF
DISCRETIZATION.
• CONVERSION OF DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS TO ALGEBRIC
EQUATIONS OR DISCRETISED
EQUATIONS.
• SOLUTION OF DISCRETISED
EQUATIONS BY TRI-DIAGONAL
MATRIX ALGORITHM.
• NUMERICAL PROBLEMS BASED
UPON HEAT TRANSFER.
 BASIC ASPECTS OF DISCRETIZATION
• THE ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE PDE INVOLVE
CLOSED FORM MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS WHICH
GIVES VARIATION OF DEPENDENT VARIABLES
CONTINOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE DOMAIN.
• BUT NUMERICAL SOLUTION CAN GIVE ANSWERS AT
ONLY DISCRETE POINTS IN THE DOMAIN CALLED AS
GRID POINTS.
• SECTION OF DISCRETE GRID IN XY PLANE HAVING
UNIFORM SPACING IN X AND Y DIRECTION. EQUAL
SPACING IS REQUIRED FOR SIMPLIFICATION OF
PROGRAMMING.
• THE DOMAIN IS CONVERTED INTO COMPUTATIONAL
SPACE HAVING STRUCTURED GRID FOR NUMERICAL
CALCULATIONS.
DISCRETE GRID POINTS
 FINITE DIFFERENCE REPRESENTATION
• PARTIAL DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS ARE
CONVERTED INTO SUITABLE ALGEBRIC
QUOTIENT I.E. FINITE DIFFERENCE USING THE
TAYLOR SERIES.
• NUMERICAL PROBLEM 4.2 FROM
NOTES OF BASIC ASPECTS OF
DISCRETIZATION.