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

Abstract

We study the convergence of a Finite Volume scheme for the linear advection equation with a Lipschitz divergence-free speed in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. We prove a $h^{1/2}$-error estimate in the $L^{\infty }(0,t;L^1)$-norm for $BV$ data. This result was expected from numerical experiments and is optimal.

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