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We study experimental convergence rates of three shock-capturing schemes for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: the second-order central-upwind (CU) scheme, the third-order Rusanov-Burstein-Mirin (RBM), and the fifth-order alternative…
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We present a simple method for applying excision boundary conditions for the relativistic Euler equations. This method depends on the use of Reconstruction-Evolution methods, a standard class of HRSC methods. We test three different…
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