A novel explicit finite difference scheme for partial differential equations

Most explicit finite difference schemes have very stringent stability criterion. In 1982, Charlie Dev [1] developed a novel method and solved several partial differential equations representing models of fluid flow. (He was then only 10 years old). Recent mathematical analysis shows that this relatively simple method is quite powerful to solve any flow model if it has a steady-state solution using a stability criterion which is a lot less stringent than most explicit finite difference schemes generally applied in Computational Fluid Dynamics [2]. © 1999 Technika.