Runge-Kutta methods for hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff relaxation terms (Q1903815)

The author constructs a second-order Runge-Kutta type splitting method for solving the relaxation system and chooses the numerical discretization for a prototypical relaxation model \(\partial_t h + \partial_x w = 0\), \(\partial_t w + \partial_x p(h) = -{1\over \varepsilon} (w - f(h))\), \(\varepsilon > 0\), \(p'(h) > 0\), which is analyzed in detail. This method possesses the discrete analogue of the continuous asymptotic limit and is able to capture the correct physical behaviors with high-order accuracy.