Semidiscrete method for solving equations of a one-dimensional motion of viscous heat-conductive gas with non-smooth data (Q1390379)

We study a semidiscrete difference method for solving inhomogeneous initial-boundary value problems with discontinuous initial and boundary data. In particular, the initial velocity and temperature are required only to have finite complete energy and entropy, and the boundary values of velocity to have a finite variation. The density of the heat sources and the boundary heat flux can be functions from \(L_1\), the coefficients which define gas properties can be discontinuous. We prove global estimates for approximate solutions and their convergence to the generalized solutions. Moreover, the developed semidiscrete method gives a good base for constructing and analyzing difference schemes.