The early influence of peter lax on computational hydrodynamics and an application of lax-friedrichs and lax-wendroff on triangular grids in lagrangian coordinates

We give a brief discussion of some of the contributions of Peter Lax to Computational Fluid Dynamics. These include the Lax-Friedrichs and Lax-Wendroff numerical schemes. We also mention his collaboration in the 1983 HLL Riemann solver. We develop two-dimensional Lax-Friedrichs and Lax-Wendroff schemes for the Lagrangian form of the Euler equations on triangular grids. We apply a composite scheme that uses a Lax-Friedrichs time step as a dissipative filter after several Lax-Wendroff time steps. Numerical results for Noh's infinite strength shock problem, the Sedov blast wave problem, and the Saltzman piston problem are presented.