I am seeking to find a finite difference solution to the 1D Nonlinear PDE
u_t = u_xx + u(u_x)^2
Code:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
from matplotlib import cm
import math
'''
We explore three different numerical methods for solving the PDE, with solution u(x, t),
u_t = u_xx + u(u_x)^2
for (x, t) in (0, 1) . (0, 1/5)
u(x, 0) = 40 * x^2 * (1 - x) / 3
u(0, t) = u(1, t) = 0
'''
M = 30
dx = 1 / M
r = 0.25
dt = r * dx**2
N = math.floor(0.2 / dt)
x = np.linspace(0, 1, M + 1)
t = np.linspace(0, 0.2, N + 1)
U = np.zeros((M + 1, N + 1)) # Initial array for solution u(x, t)
U[:, 0] = 40 * x**2 * (1 - x) / 3 # Initial condition (: for the whole of that array)
U[0, :] = 0 # Boundary condition at x = 0
U[-1, :] = 0 # Boundary condition at x = 1 (-1 means end of the array)
'''
Explicit Scheme - Simple Forward Difference Scheme
'''
for q in range(0, N - 1):
for p in range(0, M - 1):
b = 1 / (1 - 2 * r)
C = r * U[p, q] * (U[p + 1, q] - U[p, q])**2
U[p, q + 1] = b * (U[p, q] + r * (U[p + 1, q + 1] + U[p - 1, q + 1]) - C)
T, X = np.meshgrid(t, x)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
surf = ax.plot_surface(T, X, U)
#fig.colorbar(surf, shrink=0.5, aspect=5) # colour bar for reference
ax.set_xlabel('t')
ax.set_ylabel('x')
ax.set_zlabel('u(x, t)')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig('FDExplSol.png', bbox_inches='tight')
plt.show()
The code I use produces the following error:
overflow encountered in double_scalars
C = r * U[p, q] * (U[p + 1, q] - U[p, q])**2
invalid value encountered in double_scalars
U[p, q + 1] = b * (U[p, q] + r * (U[p + 1, q + 1] + U[p - 1, q + 1]) - C)
invalid value encountered in double_scalars
C = r * U[p, q] * (U[p + 1, q] - U[p, q])**2
Z contains NaN values. This may result in rendering artifacts.
surf = ax.plot_surface(T, X, U)
I've looked up these errors and I assume that the square term generates values too small for the dtype. However when I try changing the dtype to account for a larger range of numbers (np.complex128) I get the same error.
The resulting plot obviously has most of its contents missing. So, my question is, what do I do?
