Conservative schemes 159
provided conditions (20)-(21) hold.
In what follows we deal everywhere with the primary family of ho-
rnogeneous conservative schen1es (16), (17) and (16^1 ), (17) as well as with
linear nonnegative pattern functionals A[k(s)] and F[f(s)] still subject to
conditions (20) and (21) of second-order approxi111ation.
In the sequel scheme (17), (15) will be called the best possible.
3.3 CONVERGENCE AND ACCURACY OF HOMOGENEOUS
CONSERVATIVE SCHEMES
- The error of approximation in the class of smooth coefficients. The main
point of the theory is the accurate account of the accuracy of the uniform
scheme (16)-(17) in the class of continuous and discontinuous functions
k(x), q(x) and f(x). In preparation for this, let u(x) be an exact solution
of the original problem
(k(x) u^1 (x))
1
- q(x) u(x) = -f(x), O<x<l,
(1)
u(O)=u 1 , u(l)=u 2 , k(x)2c 1 >0, q(x)>O,
and let y = y( x) be a solution of the difference problem
(2)
(ayi:) x - d(x) y = -<p(x), x = ih , i = 1, 2, ... , N - 1 ,
a(x) 2 c 1 > 0, d(x)>O,
which belongs to the primary family of conservative schemes designed in
Section 2.4.
Common practice involves the error z(x) = y(x) - u(x) being a grid
function for x E wh. Inserting the representation y(x) = z(x) + u(x) in (2)
and assuming u(x)' to be a known function, we may set up the difference
problem for the error
(3)
Az= (az 10 )x-dz=-1f;(x),
z(O) = z(l) = 0,
where the residual
x = ih , i = l, 2, ... , N - 1 ,
Cl 2 c 1 > 0,
(4) 1/;(x) =Au+ <p(x) = (au,r:)x - cfo + <p