| Method | Order | Finite-Difference Form |
| Purely Advective | ||
| Upwind (FTUS) |
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| Centered (FTCS) |
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| Lax-Friedrichs |
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| Lax-Wendroff |
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| Beam-Warming |
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| Purely Diffusive | ||
| Leapfrog |
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| Crank-Nicholson |
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| Dufort-Frankel |
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