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Error analysis of an Algebraic Flux Correction Scheme for a nonlinear Scalar Conservation Law Using SSP-RK2

Numerical Analysis 2026-02-20 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We consider a scalar conservation law with linear and nonlinear flux function on a bounded domain ΩR2\Omega\subset{\R}^2 with Lipschitz boundary Ω.\partial\Omega. We discretize the spatial variable with the standard finite element method where we use a local extremum diminishing flux limiter which is linearity preserving. For temporal discretization, we use the second order explicit strong stability preserving Runge--Kutta method. It is known that the resulting fully-discrete scheme satisfies the discrete maximum principle. Under the sufficiently regularity of the weak solution and the CFL condition k=O(h2)k = \mathcal{O}(h^2), we derive error estimates in L2L^{2}- norm for the algebraic flux correction scheme in space and in \ell^\infty in time. We also present numerical experiments that validate that the fully-discrete scheme satisfies the temporal order of convergence of the fully-discrete scheme that we proved in the theoretical analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2409.18606,
  title  = {Error analysis of an Algebraic Flux Correction Scheme for a nonlinear Scalar Conservation Law Using SSP-RK2},
  author = {Christos Pervolianakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18606},
  year   = {2026}
}