Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2017) 132: 496
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11787-x

Regular Article

A numerical method to solve the 1D and the 2D reaction diffusion equation based on Bessel functions and Jacobian free Newton-Krylov subspace methods

Department of Computer Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Tehran, Iran

^* e-mail: k_parand@sbu.ac.ir

Received: 1 July 2017
Accepted: 23 October 2017
Published online: 28 November 2017

Abstract

In this paper a novel method will be introduced to solve a nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE). In the proposed method, we use the spectral collocation method based on Bessel functions of the first kind and the Jacobian free Newton-generalized minimum residual (JFNGMRes) method with adaptive preconditioner. In this work a nonlinear PDE has been converted to a nonlinear system of algebraic equations using the collocation method based on Bessel functions without any linearization, discretization or getting the help of any other methods. Finally, by using JFNGMRes, the solution of the nonlinear algebraic system is achieved. To illustrate the reliability and efficiency of the proposed method, we solve some examples of the famous Fisher equation. We compare our results with other methods.