Unconditionally stable high-order scheme for the fractional generalized Burgers-Huxley equation

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Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Mojtaba Hajipour ¹
• Yashar Lakpour ¹
• Dumitru Baleanu ^{2, 3}

¹ Department of Mathematics, Sahand University of Technology, P.O. Box: 51335-1996, Tabriz, Iran

² Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

³ Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele, Romania

10.22067/ijnao.2025.93568.1649

Abstract

This study presents a high-order numerical scheme for solving the generalized fractional-order Burgers-Huxley equation, a nonlinear evolutionary PDE combining integer-order spatial derivatives with temporal fractional derivatives. The model captures essential features of reaction-diffusion-convection systems and neural pulse propagation dynamics. We develop a fourth-order compact finite difference method for spatial discretization coupled with a Grünwald-Letnikov approximation for the fractional time derivative. The resulting nonlinear system is solved using an efficient iterative algorithm. Rigorous analysis demonstrates that the proposed method is unconditionally stable and achieves $\mathcal{O}(\tau^3 + h^4)$ convergence, where $\tau$ and $h$ represent temporal and spatial step sizes, respectively. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results and illustrate the scheme's accuracy through multiple test cases, demonstrating its effectiveness in handling this class of fractional PDEs.

Keywords

• Burgers-Huxley equation
• Finite difference formula
• High-order method
• Stability
• Iterative method

Main Subjects

• Numerical methods for differential equations and its applications

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