Finite Difference Schemes of One Variable

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

Finite difference formulas are generated for a specified number of equally spaced nodes, a derivative node, and the order of the derivative.

[more]

The terms , , denotes the function values , , , and so on; is the distance between two nodes.

[less]

Contributed by: Mikhail Dimitrov Mikhailov (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


Snapshots


Details

The classical Taylor series method is used. For details see the textbook:

P. Moin, Fundamentals of Engineering Numerical Analysis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.



Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send