This article presents a time-accurate numerical method using high-order accurate compact finite difference scheme for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. The method relies on the artificial compressibility formulation, which endows the governing equations a hyperbolic–parabolic nature. The convective terms are discretized with a third-order upwind compact scheme based on flux-difference...

We develop a new efficient second-order finite difference scheme for two-dimensional problem of contaminant in groundwater flow. Theoretical analysis shows that the scheme is second-order convergence in the L2 norm and is unconditionally stable. Numerical results demonstrate that the error measures of the second-order scheme are several times smaller than those of the standard implicit finite d...

We establish the global existence of L∞ solutions for a model of polytropic gas flow with diffusive entropy. The result is obtained by showing the convergence of a class of finite difference schemes, which includes the Lax– Friedrichs and Godunov schemes. Such convergence is achieved by proving the estimates required for the application of the compensated compactness theory.

We consider a finite difference scheme, called Quickest, introduced by Leonard in 1979, for the convection-diffusion equation. Quickest uses an explicit, Leith-type differencing and third-order upwinding on the convective derivatives yielding a four-point scheme. For that reason the method requires careful treatment on the inflow boundary considering the fact that we need to introduce numerical...

The finite difference methods of Godunov, Hyman, Lax and Wendroff (two-step), MacCormack, Rusanov, the upwind scheme, the hybrid scheme of Harten and Zwas, the antidiffusion method of Boris and Book, the artificial compression method of Harten, and Glimm’s method, a random choice method, are discussed. The methods are used to integrate the one-dimensional Eulerian form of the equations of gas d...