  In this work, a numerical simulation of 1D Burgers' equation is developed
using finite difference method and a reduced order model (ROM) of the
simulation is developed using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The
objective of this work is to provide an introduction of the POD method to
researchers interested in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This work
discusses a physical interpretation of the POD method, its strengths and
shortcomings and an implementation of the algorithm that may be extended to 2D,
3D Burgers' equation and other non-linear partial differential equations (PDE)
of this class, to develop models for more complex systems.
