Well-balanced schemes versus fractional step method for hyperbolic system with source terms (Q876740): Difference between revisions

This paper is concerned with the investigation of the true accuracy of the fractional step method and the methods involving an upwinding of source terms when computing a simple hyperbolic model with source terms, which describes the motion of two-phase flows including source terms. The authors analyze the strategy of upwinding the source terms and compare it with the standard fractional step method. A first scheme relies on the usual fractional step approach, while a second scheme applies for upwinding of source terms, which, however, does not provide satisfactory results when computing certain specific unsteady cases. This motivates thus the authors to introduce a third scheme, which is similar to the previous but aims at providing an increased accuracy on coarse meshes when computing highly unsteady flows. The introduced scheme is based on a slight modification of the standard well-balanced scheme. A detailed numerical study which includes a measure of the \(L^1\) norm of the error is given.