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MacCormack Method

The MacCormack method is used to solve fluid flow equations and nonlinear partial differential equations. It is a variation of the two-step Lax-Wendroff method that does not require computing values at half grid points. The method involves a predictor step that uses forward differences to estimate future values, followed by a corrector step that uses backward differences on the predictions to provide the final values.

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MacCormack Method

The MacCormack method is used to solve fluid flow equations and nonlinear partial differential equations. It is a variation of the two-step Lax-Wendroff method that does not require computing values at half grid points. The method involves a predictor step that uses forward differences to estimate future values, followed by a corrector step that uses backward differences on the predictions to provide the final values.

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MacCormack method: The MacCormack method is widely used in fluid flow equation.

It is a variation of two step LaxWendroff method which removes the necessity of computing unknowns at the grid points . Because of this feature particularly MacCormack method is useful while solving non-linear PDEs. This is also known as predictor-corrector method. Consider one dimensional first order wave equation,

It may be noted that the above equation is obtained by replacing the spatial and temporal derivatives in the wave equation using forward differences.

Replacing

) the corrector step is, [(

)]

Where

is a temporary predicted value of at time level

at time level

. The corrector provides

the final value of

Note that the corrector step uses backward finite difference approximations for spatial derivative. Note also that the time-step used in the corrector step is step. in contrast to the used in the predictor

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