On the accuracy of WENO and CWENO reconstructions of third order on nonuniform meshes (Q2629259)

The authors discuss the advantage of choosing the small parameter \(\varepsilon\) in weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) and CWENO boundary value reconstruction procedures of third order on nonuniform meshes in the setting of finite volume schemes. The current work shows that choosing \(\varepsilon\) as a function of the local mesh size allows one to recover the optimal error of convergence even close to local extrema of the function being reconstructed and in general provides a much more regular pattern of error decay.