Numerical Solution of Heat Equation using Modified Cubic B-spline Collocation Method

Abstract

In this paper, a collocation method is presented based on the Modified Cubic B-spline Method (MCBSM) for the numerical solution of the heat equation. The PDE is fully discretized by using the Modified Cubic B-spline basis collocation for spatial discretization and the finite difference method is used for the time discretization. A numerical example from PDE is used to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method. The numerical results are evaluated in comparison to the exact solutions. The findings consistently indicate that the suggested technique provides good error estimates. We also discovered that our proposed method was unconditionally stable. Hence, based on the results and the efficiency of the method, the method is suitable for solving heat equation.