© 1971 by British Computer Society
A high-order solution to the characteristic initial value problem in hyperbolic partial differential equations

Air Pollution Control Division, Department of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
An iterative method is given for solving a canonical form of second order hyperbolic partial differential equation. Numerical comparisons are made with two recent methods and a treatment is given for estimation of cumulative truncation error in the new method.
Received March 1968. revised April 1970.
* Formerly with Great Lakes Division, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Canada
Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Presently with Air Pollution Control Division, Department af National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada