Convergence of an Immersed Interface Upwind Scheme for Linear Advection Equations with Piecewise Constant Coefficients I: $L^1$-Error Estimates

Convergence of an Immersed Interface Upwind Scheme for Linear Advection Equations with Piecewise Constant Coefficients I: $L^1$-Error Estimates

Year:    2008

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 26 (2008), Iss. 1 : pp. 1–22

Abstract

We study the $L^1$-error estimates for the upwind scheme to the linear advection equations with a piecewise constant coefficients modeling linear waves crossing interfaces. Here the interface condition is immersed into the upwind scheme. We prove that, for initial data with a bounded variation, the numerical solution of the immersed interface upwind scheme converges in $L^1$-norm to the differential equation with the corresponding interface condition. We derive the one-halfth order $L^1$-error bounds with explicit coefficients following a technique used in [25]. We also use some inequalities on binomial coefficients proved in a consecutive paper [32].

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2008-JCM-10363

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 26 (2008), Iss. 1 : pp. 1–22

Published online:    2008-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

Keywords:    Linear advection equations Immersed interface upwind scheme Piecewise constant coefficients Error estimate Half order error bound.