On the accuracy of bicompact schemes as applied to computation of unsteady shock waves

Bicompact schemes that have the fourth order of classical approximation in space and a higher order (at least the second) in time are considered. Their accuracy is studied as applied to a quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws with discontinuous solutions involving shock waves with variable propagation velocities. The shallow water equations are used as an example of such a system. It is shown that a nonmonotone bicompact scheme has a higher order of convergence in domains of influence of unsteady shock waves. If spurious oscillations are suppressed by applying a conservative limiting procedure, then the bicompact scheme, though being high-order accurate on smooth solutions, has a reduced (first) order of convergence in the domains of influence of shock waves.