ENTROPY CONSERVATIVE SCHEMES AND ADAPTIVE MESH SELECTION FOR HYPERBOLIC CONSERVATION LAWS

Abstract

We consider numerical schemes which combine non-uniform, adaptively redefined spatial meshes with entropy conservative schemes for the evolution step for shock computations. We observe that the resulting adaptive schemes yield approximations free of oscillations in contrast to known fully discrete entropy conservative schemes on uniform meshes. We conclude that entropy conservative schemes are transformed to entropy diminishing schemes when combined with the proposed geometrically driven mesh adaptivity.