An Adaptive Viscosity E–Scheme for Degenerate Conservation and Balance Laws

Abstract

An adaptive E–scheme for degenerate, viscous balance laws is presented. Taking into account natural diffusion, numerical viscosity is locally reduced to a minimum. Numerical experiments demonstrate the improved accuracy of the adaptive scheme. Explicit and implicit three–point E–schemes are monotone, TVD and nonlinearly stable. A high–resolution version of the adaptive E–scheme is derived and tested in experiments. The latter is not necessarily monotone, but TVD.