  Slope limiters play an essential role in maintaining the non-oscillatory
behavior of high-resolution methods for nonlinear conservation laws. The family
of minmod limiters serves as the prototype example. Here, we revisit the
question of non-oscillatory behavior of high-resolution central schemes in
terms of the slope limiter proposed by van Albada et. al. 1982. The van Albada
(vA) limiter is smoother near extrema, and consequently, in many cases, it
outperforms the results obtained using the standard minmod limiter. In
particular, we prove that the vA limiter ensures 1D TVD stability and
demonstrate that it yields noticeable improvement in computation of one- and
two-dimensional systems.
