Many second order accurate non-oscillatory schemes are based on the Minmod limiter, for example the Nessyahu-Tadmor scheme. It is well known that the Lperror of monotone finite difference methods for the linear advection equation is of order 1/2 for initial data in W (Lp), 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, see [2]. For a second or higher order non-oscillatory schemes very little is known because they are nonlinear ev...

We study the behavior of oscillatory solutions to convection-diffusion problems, subject to initial and forcing data with modulated oscillations. We quantify the weak convergence in W−1,∞ to the ’expected’ averages and obtain a sharp W−1,∞-convergence rate of order O(ε) – the small scale of the modulated oscillations. Moreover, in case the solution operator of the equation is compact, this weak...

A high resolution, second-order central difference method for incompressible flows is presented. The method is based on a recent second-order extension of the classic Lax-Friedrichs scheme introduced for hyperbolic conservation laws (Nessyahu H. & Tadmor E. (1990) J. Comp. Physics. 87, 408-463; Jiang G.-S. & Tadmor E. (1996) UCLA CAM Report 96-36, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., in press) and augmented b...

We present a new formulation of three-dimensional central finite volume methods on unstructured staggered grids for solving systems of hyperbolic equations. Based on the Lax-Friedrichs and Nessyahu-Tadmor one-dimensional central finite difference schemes, the numerical methods we propose involve a staggered grids in order to avoid solving Riemann problems at cell interfaces. The cells are baryc...

In this paper, we consider several high-order schemes in one space dimension. In particular, we compare the second-order relaxation ( << 1) or “relaxed” ( = 0) schemes of Jin and Xin [Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 48 (1995), pp. 235–277] with the second-order Lax–Friedrichs scheme of Nessyahu and Tadmor [J. Comp. Phys., 87 (1990), pp. 408–463] and with higher-order essentially nonoscillatory (ENO) an...

We discuss the occurrence of oscillations when using central schemes of the Lax-Friedrichs type (LFt), Rusanov’s method and the staggered and non-staggered second order Nessyahu-Tadmor (NT) schemes. Although these schemes are monotone or TVD, respectively, oscillations may be introduced at local data extrema. The dependence of oscillatory properties on the numerical viscosity coefficient is inv...

Many of the recently developed high-resolution schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws are based on upwind di erencing. The building block of these schemes is the averaging of an approximate Godunov solver; its time consuming part involves the eld-byeld decomposition which is required in order to identify the \direction of the wind." Instead, we propose to use as a building block the more robu...

Staggered grid finite volume methods (also called central schemes) were introduced in one dimension by Nessyahu and Tadmor in 1990 in order to avoid the necessity of having information on solutions of Riemann problems for the evaluation of numerical fluxes. We consider the general case in multidimensions and on general staggered grids which have to satisfy only an overlap assumption. We interpr...

The central scheme of Nessyahu and Tadmor (J. Comput. Phys, 87(1990)) has the benefit of not having to deal with the solution within the Riemann fan for solving hyperbolic conservation laws and related equations. But the staggered averaging causes large dissipation when the time step size is small comparing to the mesh size. The recent work of Kurganov and Tadmor (J. Comput. Phys, 160(2000)) ov...

We present three-dimensional central finite volume methods for solving systems of hyperbolic equations. Based on the Lax–Friedrichs and Nessyahu–Tadmor one-dimensional central finite difference schemes, the numerical methods we propose involve an original and a staggered grid in order to avoid the resolution of the Riemann problems at the cell interfaces. The cells of the original grid are Cart...