On the strong monotonicity of nonlinear difference schemes (Q1571202)

It is shown that, when discontinuous solutions are computed by monotonous difference schemes, strong oscillations of the difference derivatives may occur, substantially reducing the local orders of convergence of the schemes. For a set of first-order-accurate explicit schemes with an artificial viscosity, as well as for a set of second-order-accurate difference schemes for smooth solutions, criteria that guarantee the absence of such oscillations are obtained.