Table of Contents:
  • Conservation laws and differential equations
  • Characteristics and Riemann problems for linear hyperbolic equations
  • Finite-volume methods
  • Introduction to the CLAWPACK software
  • High resolution methods
  • Boundary conditions and ghost cells
  • Convergence, accuracy, and stability
  • Variable-coefficient linear equations
  • Other approaches to high resolution
  • Nonlinear scalar conservation laws
  • Finite-volume methods for nonlinear scalar conservation laws
  • Nonlinear systems of conservation laws
  • Gas dynamics and the Euler equations
  • Finite-volume methods for nonlinear systems
  • Some nonclassical hyperbolic problems
  • Source terms and balance laws
  • Multidimensional hyperbolic problems
  • Multidimensional numerical methods
  • Multidimensional scalar equations
  • Multidimensional systems
  • Elastic waves
  • Finite-volume methods on quadrilateral grids.