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We introduce new numerical techniques for solving nonlinear unsteady Burgers equation. The numerical technique involves discretization of all variables except the time variable which converts nonlinear PDE into nonlinear ODE system. Stability of the nonlinear system is verified using Lyapunov’s stability criteria. Implicit stiff solvers backward differentiation formula of order one, two and three are used to solve the nonlinear ODE system. Four test problems are included to show the applicability of introduced numerical techniques. Numerical solutions so obtained are compared with solutions of existing schemes in literature. The proposed numerical schemes are found to be simple, accurate, fast, practical and superior to some existing methods.

In this work, a novel numerical scheme based on method of lines (MOL) is proposed to solve the nonlinear time dependent Burgers’ equation. The Burgers’ equation is semi discretized in spatial direction by using MOL to yield system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations in time. The resulting system of nonlinear differential equations is integrated by an implicit finite difference method. We have not used Cole-Hopf transformation which gives less accurate solution for very small values of kinematic viscosity. Also, we have not considered nonlinear solvers that are computationally costlier and take more running time.In the proposed scheme nonlinearity is tackled by Taylor series and the use of fully discretized scheme is easy and practical. The proposed method is unconditionally stable in the linear sense. Furthermore, efficiency of the proposed scheme is demonstrated using three test problems.