Abstract We consider numerical boundary conditions for high order finite difference schemes for solving convection-diffusion equations on arbitrary geometry. The two main difficulties for numerical boundary conditions in such situations are: (1) the wide stencil of the high order finite difference operator requires special treatment for a few ghost points near the boundary; (2) the physical bou...

Abstract. We are concerned with the convergence of Lax-Wendroff type schemes with high resolution to the entropy solutions for conservation laws. These schemes include the original Lax-Wendroff scheme proposed by Lax and Wendroff in 1960 and its two step versions–the Richtmyer scheme and the MacCormack scheme. For the convex scalar conservation laws with algebraic growth flux functions, we prov...

In discussing finite difference methods for the solution of hyperbolic par t ia l differential equations, STETrER [1] used est imates on some absolutely convergent Fourier series to prove stabi l i ty and instabi l i ty with respect to uniform convergence. I f / , a complex valued function on the circle, has an absolutely convergent Fourier series, then the n-th power of ] also has an absolutel...

Spurious currents near an interface between different phases are a common undesirable feature of the lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method for two-phase systems. In this paper, we show that the spurious currents of a kinetic theory-based LBE have a significant dependence on the parity of the grid number of the underlying lattice, which can be attributed to the chequerboard effect. A technique...

We study the stability of some finite difference schemes for symmetric hyperbolic systems in two space dimensions. For the so-called upwind scheme and the Lax-Wendroff scheme with a stabilizer, we show that stability is equivalent to strong stability, meaning that both schemes are either unstable or `-decreasing. These results improve on a series of partial results on strong stability. We also ...

This study proposes one-dimensional advection diffusion equation (ADE) with finite differences method (FDM) using spreadsheet simulation (ADESS). By changing only the values of weighted parameter with ADESS model, solutions are obtained for the FTSC, Upwind and Lax Wendroff schemes. Two examples which, have the numerical and analytical solutions in literature, are solved in order to test the pr...

In this paper, we analyze the Lax-Wendroff discontinuous Galerkin (LWDG) method for solving linear conservation laws. The method was originally proposed by Guo et al. in [11], where they applied local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) techniques to approximate high order spatial derivatives in the Lax-Wendroff time discretization. We show that, under the standard CFL condition τ ≤ λh (where τ and h ...

Two finite-difference methods for, geophysical .fluid problems are described, and stability conditions of these schemes arc discussed. These two schemes are formulated based upon a similar procedure given by Lax and Wendroff in order to obtain a second-order accuracy in finite-difference equations. However, the two schemes show remarkable differcnces.io their computational stability. One scheme...