Numerical Entropy Production on Shocks and Smooth Transitions

  • Authors:
  • Gabriella Puppo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy. puppo@calvino.polito.it

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this work, we propose an algorithm to measure the numerical entropy production of several high order central schemes. The results obtained on a numerical test indicate that this quantity permits to estimate the local error, in regions of smooth flow, and to detect and locate shocks.