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...

A hardly known and very important result of Kreiss is proven explicitly: Outflow boundary extrapolation, which complements stable dissipative schemes for linear hyperbolic initial value problems, maintains stability. In view of this result, the Lax-Wendroff and the Gottlieb-Turkel schemes are applied to a test problem. As expected from the rate-of-convergence theory by Gustafsson, global order ...

We study complex-valued symmetric matrices. A simple expression for the spectral norm of such matrices is obtained, by utilizing a unitarily congruent invariant form. Consequently, we provide a sharp criterion for identifying those symmetric matrices whose spectral norm does not exceed one: such strongly stable matrices are usually sought in connection with convergent difference approximations ...

A parallel Hopscotch algorithm for the simulation of semiconductor laser arrays which overlaps the computations and communications is presented. The method uses a Lax-Wendroff scheme for the hyperbolic part of the operators and allows to obtain near-to-perfect speed-ups on MIMD computers. Numerical experiments indicate that semiconductor laser arrays exhibit a rich dynamic behavior ranging from...

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...

The typical equation for bed level change in sediment transport in river, estuary and near shore systems is based on conservation of sediment mass. It is generally a nonlinear conservation equation for bed level. The physics here are similar to shallow water wave equations and gas dynamics equation which will develop shock waves in many circumstances. Many state-of-art morphological models use ...

Previous theoretical (McCartin 1989a) and computational (McCartin 1989b) results on exponential splines are herein applied to provide approximate solutions of high order accuracy to nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. The automatic selection of certain "tension" parameters associated with the exponential spline allows the sharp resolution of shocks and the suppression of any attendant oscil...

Based on general partitions of unity and standard numerical flux functions, a class of mesh-free methods for conservation laws is derived. A Lax-Wendroff type consistency analysis is carried out for the general case of moving partition functions. The analysis leads to a set of conditions which are checked for the finite volume particle method FVPM. As a by-product, classical finite volume schem...