This note introduces a simple metric for benchmarking shock-capturing schemes , and this metric is especially focusing on the shock-capturing overshoots, which may damage the robustness of numerical simulations, as well as the reliability of numerical results. The idea is to numerically solve the  linear advection equation with square waves of different wavenumbers as initial solutions. Therefore, the exact overshoots after one step of temporal evolution  can be easily calculated, and shown as a function of  CFL number and  reduced wavenumber. The present metricis able to quantify the numerical overshoots of shock-capturing schemes , and some new features of several canonical schemes are shown .
This note introduces a simple metric for benchmarking shock-capturing schemes . This metric is especially focused on the shock-capturing overshoots, which may undermine the robustness of numerical simulations, as well as the reliability of numerical results. The idea is to numerically solve the model linear advection equation with an initial condition of a square wave characterized with different wavenumbers. After one step of temporal evolution , the exact numerical overshoot error can be easily determined and shown as a function of the CFL number and the reduced wavenumber. With the overshoot error quantified by the present metric, a number of representative shock-capturing schemes are analyzed accordingly, and several findings including the amplitude of overshoots non-monotonously varying with the CFL number, and the amplitude of overshoots significantly depending on the reduced wavenumber of the square waves (discontinuities), are newly discovered, which are not before .
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