In this paper, a posteriori error estimates were derived for piecewise linear finite element approximations to parabolic obstacle problems. The instrumental ingredient was introduced as a new interpolation operator which has optimal approximation properties and preserves positivity. With the help of the interpolation operator the upper and lower bounds were obtained.
In this paper, the super spectral viscosity （SSV） method is developed by introducing a spectrally small amount of high order regularization which is only activated on high frequencies. The resulting SSV approximation is stable and convergent to the exact entropy solution. A Gegenbauer-Chebyshev post-processing for the SSV solution is proposed to remove the spurious oscillations at the disconti-nuities and recover accuracy from the spectral approximation. The ssv method is applied to the scahr periodic Burgers equation and the one-dimensional system of Euler equations of gas dynamics. The numerical results exhibit high accuracy and resolution to the exact entropy solution,
