High resolution compact implicit numerical scheme for conservation laws

Abstract

We present a novel implicit scheme for the numerical solution of time-dependent conservation laws. The core idea of the presented method is to exploit and approximate the mixed spatial-temporal derivative of the solution that occurs naturally when deriving some second order accurate schemes in time. Such an approach is introduced in the context of the Lax-Wendroff (or Cauchy-Kowalevski) procedure when the second time derivative is not completely replaced by space derivatives using the PDE, but the mixed derivative is kept. If approximated in a suitable way, the resulting compact implicit scheme produces algebraic systems that have a more convenient structure than the systems derived by fully implicit schemes. We derive a high resolution TVD form of the implicit scheme for some representative hyperbolic equations in the one-dimensional case, including illustrative numerical experiments.