Construction of second-order TVD schemes for nonhomogeneous hyperbolic conservation laws (Q5951847)

This paper is concerned with the formulation of conservative finite difference schemes with the total variation diminishing (TVD) property to solve systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws with source terms. A technique based on the transformation of the nonhomogeneous problem into a homogeneous form through the definition of a new flux formed by the physical flux and the primitive of the source term is proposed. The application of the numerical methods described for homogeneous conservation laws needs a new formalization of the classical schemes.