TY - JOUR T1 - An instability of the Godunov scheme JF - Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 59 (2006) 1604-1638 Y1 - 2006 A1 - Alberto Bressan A1 - Helge Kristian Jenssen A1 - Paolo Baiti AB - We construct a solution to a $2\\\\times 2$ strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws, showing that the Godunov scheme \\\\cite{Godunov59} can produce an arbitrarily large amount of oscillations. This happens when the speed of a shock is close to rational, inducing a resonance with the grid. Differently from the Glimm scheme or the vanishing viscosity method, for systems of conservation laws our counterexample indicates that no a priori BV bounds or $L^1$ stability estimates can in general be valid for finite difference schemes. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2183 U1 - 2061 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -