Pointwise error estimates for relaxation approximations to conservation laws

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 870-886

  Tadmor, Eitan ^a   Tang, Tao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conservation laws; Error estimates; Maximum principle; One sided interpolation inequality; Optimal convergence rate; Relaxation method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034353714     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141098349492     Document Type: Article

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