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...

We give the first convergence proof for the Lax-Friedrichs finite difference scheme for non-convex genuinely nonlinear scalar conservation laws of the form ut + f(k(x, t), u)x = 0, where the coefficient k(x, t) is allowed to be discontinuous along curves in the (x, t) plane. In contrast to most of the existing literature on problems with discontinuous coefficients, our convergence proof is not ...

We employ a new second-order extension of the Lax±Friedrichs scheme, with incompressibility imposed by means of a projection algorithm, to follow the evolution of the vorticity and stress fields for a Maxwell fluid in a two-dimensional periodic system initialized with two thin and concentrated shear layers. The scheme is simple, efficient, and robust, and is capable, in particular, of resolving...

A class of non-oscillatory numerical methods for solving nonlinear scalar conservation laws in one space dimension is considered. This class of methods contains the classical Lax-Friedrichs and the second order Nessyahu-Tadmor scheme. In the case of linear flux, new l2 stability results and error estimates for the methods are proved. Numerical experiments confirm that these methods are one-side...

In this paper, we focus on the application and illustration of the approach developed in part I. This approach is found to be useful in the construction of stable and monotone central difference schemes for hyperbolic systems. A new modification of the central Lax–Friedrichs scheme is developed to be of second-order accuracy. The stability of several versions of the developed central scheme is ...

We give a further examination of the stabilized Residual Distribution schemes for the solution of the shallow water equations proposed in (Ricchiuto and Bollermann, J.Comp.Phys., available online 25 October 2008). Based on a non-linear variant of a Lax-Friedrichs scheme, the scheme is wellbalanced, able to handle dry areas and, for smooth regions of the solution, obtains second order of accurac...

This paper is to study the asymptotic stability of stationary discrete shocks for the Lax-Friedrichs scheme approximating nonconvex scalar conservation laws, provided that the summations of the initial perturbations equal to zero. The result is proved by using a weighted energy method based on the nonconvexity. Moreover, the l1 stability is also obtained. The key points of our proofs are to cho...

Fast sweeping methods are efficient Gauss–Seidel iterative numerical schemes originally designed for solving static Hamilton–Jacobi equations. Recently, these methods have been applied to solve hyperbolic conservation laws with source terms. In this paper, we propose Lax–Friedrichs fast sweeping multigrid methods which allow even more efficient calculations of viscosity solutions of stationary ...

In this paper we analyze the large time asymptotic behavior of the discrete solutions of numerical approximation schemes for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws. We consider three monotone conservative schemes that are consistent with the one-sided Lipschitz condition (OSLC): Lax-Friedrichs, Engquist-Osher and Godunov. We mainly focus on the inviscid Burgers equation, for which we know that the...