Central ADER schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws (Q933474)

The ADER approach is recently developed as a generalisation of the upwind Godunov's method and relies on the solution of a generalised Riemann problem GRP with initial condition consisting of polynomial functions of arbitrary order.The main motivation of the paper is to enhance the accuracy and simplicity of the ADER schemes by making use of the central fluxes as part of the flux expansion of the solution of the GRP. The author proposes the use of two central fluxes, instead of upwind fluxes, as the building block. These are the monotone first order Lax-Friedrich LXF and the third order TVD flux. Accuracy of the new schemes is established. Numerical implementation of the new schemes are carried out on the scalar conservation laws with a linear flux, nonlinear convex flux and non-convex flux. The results demonstrate that the proposed scheme, with LXF flux, is comparable to those using first and second order upwind fluxes while the scheme, with third order TVD flux, is superior to those using upwind fluxes. When compared with the state of art ADER schemes, the author's central ADER schemes are faster, more accurate, Riemann solver free, very simple to implement and need less computer memory. A way to extend these schemes to general systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws in one and two dimensions is presented.