TY - JOUR T1 - A Novel Numerical Method of O(h4 ) for Three-Dimensional Non-Linear Triharmonic Equations JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 5 SP - 1417 EP - 1433 PY - 2012 DA - 2012/12 SN - 12 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.080910.060112a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7340.html KW - AB -

In this article, we present two new novel finite difference approximations of order two and four, respectively, for the three dimensional non-linear triharmonic partial differential equations on a compact stencil where the values of u, ∂2u/∂n2 and ∂4u/∂n4 are prescribed on the boundary. We introduce new ideas to handle the boundary conditions and there is no need to discretize the derivative boundary conditions. We require only 7- and 19-grid points on the compact cell for the second and fourth order approximation, respectively. The Laplacian and the biharmonic of the solution are obtained as by-product of the methods. We require only system of three equations to obtain the solution. Numerical results are provided to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed methods.