NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS HYDRO-18 NUMERICAL PROPERTIES OF IMPLICIT FOUR-POINT FINITE DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS OF UNSTEADY FLOW D. L. Fread Office of Hydrology Washington, D.C. March 1974 Reprinted August 1975 URITED STATES NATIONAL OCEANIC AMD National Weather DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ATMOSPHERIC AOMINISTRATION Semce Frederick B. Demi, Secretary ‘Robert M. White, Administrator George F. Cressman, DirectorList of figures . 21 ee te eee ee ew te tes Iistiah epibols eis eS HK ES TURE & a ES,S BBSELGCE 6 6 cieeltene ce ew Blew ee 8 lela ew Swell de SREEOERCEION eye cs ee oetee we He eee ee 1.1 Unsteady flow equations .. . 1,2 Methods of solution .... + 1,3. Implicit four-point difference 1.4 Scope of this report. .... Ge: SEAS ceverens w ui & sherauere Bow we RKENY ® G era 3.1 Introduction... 6 eee ee 3.2 Truncation error. 6 6 we ee ee 3,3: CORVERGERGS FALE & cocieiuie © @ aiaeenede © & ensnins 3.4 Mass conservation «21 es ee ee ee ee 3.5 Momentum conservation «2. 2 eects 3.6 Numerical experiments 2... epee ete eee 4. Summary and conclusions... 2. ee ee 4.2 Conclusions 2.2 +s eee eee eee eee ee References 2.1 ee ee ee ee es adi di iv woo oe a 10 12 12 4 23 24 25 36 36 37 38