Understanding the Shu–Osher Conservative Finite Difference Form

Authors:
Barry Merriman
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095. barrym@ucla.edu
Venue:
Journal of Scientific Computing
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Shu and Osher introduced a conservative finite difference discretization for hyperbolic conservation laws using nodal values rather than the traditional cell averages. Their form was obtained by introducing mathematical relations that simplify the resulting numerical methods. Here we instead “derive” their form from the standard cell average approach. In the process, we clarify the origin of their relations and the properties of this formulation. We also investigate the extension of their form to non-uniform grids. We show the strict conservation form only extends to grids with quadratic or exponential stretching. However, a slight generalization can be applied to all smoothly stretched grids with no loss of essential properties.