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Abstract: In this paper, we design stable and accurate numerical schemes for conservation laws with stiff source terms. A prime example and the main motivation for our study is the reactive Euler equations of gas dynamics. Furthermore, we consider widely studied scalar model equations. We device one-step IMEX (implicit–explicit) schemes for these equations that treats the convection terms explicitly and the source terms implicitly. For the non-linear scalar equation, we use a novel choice of initial data for the resulting Newton solver and obtain correct propagation speeds, even in the difficult case of rarefaction initial data. For the reactive Euler equations, we choose the numerical diffusion suitably in order to obtain correct wave speeds on under-resolved meshes. We prove that our implicit–explicit scheme converges in the scalar case and present a large number of numerical experiments to validate our scheme in both the scalar case as well as the case of reactive Euler equations. Furthermore, we discuss fundamental differences between the reactive Euler equations and the scalar model equation that must be accounted for when designing a scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We deal with a single conservation law with discontinuous convex–concave type fluxes which arise while considering sign changing flux coefficients. The main difficulty is that a weak solution may not exist as the Rankine–Hugoniot condition at the interface may not be satisfied for certain choice of the initial data. We develop the concept of generalized entropy solutions for such equations by replacing the Rankine–Hugoniot condition by a generalized Rankine–Hugoniot condition. The uniqueness of solutions is shown by proving that the generalized entropy solutions form a contractive semi-group in . Existence follows by showing that a Godunov type finite difference scheme converges to the generalized entropy solution. The scheme is based on solutions of the associated Riemann problem and is neither consistent nor conservative. The analysis developed here enables to treat the cases of fluxes having at most one extrema in the domain of definition completely. Numerical results reporting the performance of the scheme are presented. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]