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Conservative Entropy and Energy Correct Difference Methods for One-Dimensional Quasi-Gasdynamic Systems of Equations
Numerical methods for solving systems of gas dynamic equations are the subject of a vast literature. A special family of spatially symmetric conservative difference methods based on preliminary kinetic, or quasi-gasdynamic (QGD), regularization of these equations was constructed and successfully tested. A pressing issue is the construction of numerical methods that are not only conservative in mass, momentum, and total energy, but also entropy correct (stable). Previously, the author constructed conservative spatial discretizations of one-dimensional QGD systems of equations in the general and barotropic cases with entropic and energetic correctness. This was achieved, in part, through the use of nonstandard nonlinear averagings in the terms of the equations. This paper proves that fully discrete conservative difference methods, which are purely implicit two-level time approximations of the called discretizations, inherit the aforementioned correctness properties, while those that are explicit two-level approximations do not.