The problem of traffic congestion is becoming endemic due to increased levels of populations owning automobiles. In an effort to minimize congestion, an accurate method for modeling the flow of traffic is imperative. While randomized microscopic models can be very accurate, they are computationally much slower than macroscopic models. Furthermore, macroscopic models can be very accurate in mode...

We introduce two kinds of explicit solutions to the convection-reaction equation, ut + (|u| /q)x = u, u, x ∈ R, t ∈ R , q > 1, and employ them to test properties of various computational schemes. From this test we observe that computed solutions using Lax-Friedrichs, MacCormack and Lax-Wendroff schemes break down in a finite time. On the other hand some other schemes including WENO, NT and Godu...

The advection equation is the basis for mathematical models of continuum mechanics. In the approximate solution of nonstationary problems it is necessary to inherit main properties of the conservatism and monotonicity of the solution. In this paper, the advection equation is written in the symmetric form, where the advection operator is the half-sum of advection operators in conservative (diver...

Abstract — An upwind and a Lax-Wendroff scheme are introduced for the solution of a one dimensional non-local problem modelling Ohmic heating of Foods. The schemes are studied regarding their consistency, stability and the rate of convergence for the cases that the problem attains a global solution in time. A high resolution scheme is also introduced and it is shown that it is total-variation-s...

In the present work we derive and study a non-linear elliptic PDE coming from the problem of estimation of sound speed inside the Earth. The physical setting of the PDE allows us to pose only a Cauchy problem, and hence is ill-posed. However, we are still able to solve it numerically on a long enough time interval to be of practical use. We used two approaches. The first approach is a finite di...