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2.4.6 FTFS scheme

Figure 13: FTFS scheme: stencil diagram and (disastrous) test result.
\includegraphics[width=8.0cm]{images/pde1d_stencil_0p.ps} \includegraphics[width=8.0cm]{images/pde1d_solve_linadv_spikes_naive_i200n500dt04.ps}
Figure 13: FTFS scheme with flux
\begin{displaymath}
\textstyle
f_{i+\frac{1}{2}}^n = f \! \left( \rho_{i+1}^n \right)
\enspace .
\end{displaymath} (114)
Small-scale oscillations grow even faster than for the naive scheme and render the FTFS scheme useless (at least for \bgroup\color{DEFcolor}$v>0$\egroup), too.