Stability and monotonicity of a conservative difference scheme for a multidimensional nonlinear scalar conservation law

Abstract

We prove the existence, uniqueness, and monotonicity of the solution of an upwind conservative explicit difference scheme approximating an initial-boundary value problem for a many-dimensional nonlinear scalar conservation law with a quadratic nonlinearity under some specific conditions imposed only on the input data of the problem. We show that the resulting solution is not necessarily stable. Under some additional conditions on the input data, which provide the absence of shock waves, we prove the stability of the unique solution of the difference scheme for any finite time.