Some examples of kinetic schemes whose diffusion limit is Il'in's exponential-fitting (Q1728084)

This paper is concerned with diffusive approximations of some numerical schemes for several linear kinetic models. These models are motivated by wide-range applications. The well-balanced method applied to such kinetic equations leads to time-marching schemes involving a ``scattering \(S\)-matrix'', itself derived from a normal modes decomposition of the stationary solution. One common property of these models is the type of diffusive approximation: their macroscopic densities solve drift-diffusion systems for which a distinguished numerical scheme is Il'in/Scharfetter-Gummel's ``exponential fitting'' discretization. It is shown that these well-balanced schemes relax, within a parabolic rescaling, towards such a type of discretization by means of an appropriate decomposition of the \(S\)-matrix, hence are asymptotic preserving.