Affiliation:
1. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
Abstract
Issues related to the lack of convergence in the application of formally path-conservative difference schemes for solving nonconservative hyperbolic systems of equations are numerically investigated. This problem is central in constructing well-posed difference schemes for solving this class of problems. The basic concepts of the theory of nonconservative hyperbolic systems of equations and the corresponding problems of constructing difference schemes for their solution are outlined. A variant of the HLL method is proposed that allows using an arbitrary explicitly specified path. For a model system of Burgers equations, the shock adiabates and paths corresponding to the viscous regularization of a system of a given form are explicitly calculated. The reasons for the lack of convergence of numerical solutions of exact ones in the case of incorrect application of the corresponding algorithms are analyzed. It is shown that, at least in the particular case considered, a variant of the HLL method that is formally conservative along the way gives the correct solution of the problem.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences