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Error estimate for the Finite Volume Scheme applied to the advection equation

Benoit Merlet, Julien Vovelle

math.AParXiv:math/0509274

Abstract

We study the convergence of a Finite Volume scheme for the linear advection equation with a Lipschitz divergence-free speed in d. We prove a h1/2-error estimate in the L∞(0,t;L1)-norm for BV data. This result was expected from numerical experiments and is optimal.

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