Upwind and high-resolution schemes

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[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] Nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws rule many branches of the applied sciences, in particular the dynamics of compressible fluid flows. Although mathematical interest in questions of existence and uniqueness dates back to the 1950's, it was certainly the rapid development of high-speed aircraft and spacecraft as well as the even more rapid development of computer hardware during the last two decades which triggered the design of robust and accurate numerical methods to compute weak solutions including strong shock waves. One of the pioneering figures in the history of the development of the so-called high-resolution schemes was Ami Harten, who died suddenly in 1994. The present volume is dedicated to the memory of Ami Harten and his enormous contribution -- both in number and quality -- to the active research area of high-resolution methods. The volume contains selected papers from this area which served as milestones over the last years, including Ami Harten's own contributions, especially concerning the development of TVD (total variation diminishing) and ENO (essentially non-oscillatory) methods. The volume starts with an essay written by \textit{Bram van der Leer} on the history of high-resolution schemes with particular emphasis on research which took place at ICASE. ICASE played a crucial role in the history of the development of high-resolution and upwind methods. Harten died before he could write an introductory essay on high-resolution schemes himself. This task was now accomplished by \textit{Phil Roe} and constitutes the second introductory paper of the present volume. The remaining four chapters carry the headings: Riemann solver and upwind schemes; Second-order total-variation diminishing schemes; Essentially non-oscillatory schemes, and Multidimensional schemes, respectively, and contain 21 reprinted research articles.




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