A difference scheme for conservation laws with a discontinuous flux: The nonconvex case

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1197-1218

  Towers, John D ^a  

^a MiraCosta College   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation laws; Difference approximations; Discontinuous coefficients; Nonconvex; Source terms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035453016     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142900374974     Document Type: Article

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