Lax-Wendroff method for advection equation with periodic boundary condition

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I'm trying to solve advection equation in with and periodic boundary conditions . My approach is as follow:
clc,clear
xmin=0;
xmax=1;
m=400;%space
t=0;
h=1/(m+1);
n=10/(0.95*h);%time steps
a=1;
dt=0.95*h/a;
x=xmin:h:xmax;
a1=a*dt/(h);
% ic
u0=cos(2*pi*x)+.2*cos(10*pi*x);
% plot(x,u0,'k*')
% hold on
u=u0;
un=u0;
% v = VideoWriter('newfile2.avi');
% open(v)
for j=1:n%time
%bc
% u(1)=u(m+1);
for i=2:m+1%space
un(i)=u(i)-(a1/2)*(u(i+1)-u(i-1))+0.5*(a1)^2*(u(i+1)-2*u(i)+u(i-1));
end
un(1)=un(m+1);
un(m+2)=un(2);
u=un;
t=t+dt;
%exact
y_e=(cos(2*pi*(x-t))+.2*cos(10*pi*(x-t)));
plot(x,y_e)
hold on
plot(x,u,'bo-','MarkerFaceColor','r')
hold off
title(sprintf('time=%1.3f',t))
shg
pause(dt)
% frame = getframe(gcf);
% writeVideo(v,frame);
end
% close(v)
error=abs(max(y_e-un))
The code is running well. However, I'm not getting desired order of accuracy. Your help will be appreciated.

Answers (1)

Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens on 13 Mar 2022
If you make dt=0.1*h/a; instead of dt=0.95*h/a; your max error reduces to 0.0355.
  2 Comments
Torsten
Torsten on 14 Mar 2022
We can't see where you varied the spatial and/or temporal resolution and calculated the convergence order.
Or what is your definition of "order of accuracy" ?

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