Numerical scheme for a scalar conservation law with memory (Q2874176)

The author develops and analyzes a numerical approximation of the model NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\alpha u_{t}+\beta * u_{t}+f(u)_{x}=0, \; x \in \mathbb{R}, \; t \in (0,T),NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINEu(x,0)=u_0(x), \; x \in \mathbb{R},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE describing the concentration of some species being advected in the medium with a linear or strictly increasing nonlinear convex function \(f\), where the properties of \(\beta\) in the Volterra convolution integral NEWLINE\[NEWLINE(\beta * u_{t})(x,t)=\int_0^t \beta (t-s)u_{t}(x,s)ds NEWLINE\]NEWLINE are crucial for analysis and approximation of the model. The finite difference approximation combines Godunov's method for the differential operator with a product type quadrature for the integral term. The stability of the difference scheme for both the linear and nonlinear flux is proven. The numerical examples confirm the theoretical results and show the smoothing effects introducing by the memory term as well as the limits of applicability of the difference scheme.