Local Asymptotic Patterns for Viscous Approximations of Conservation Laws

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Main Authors: Bressan, Alberto, Caravenna, Laura, Shen, Wen
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author Bressan, Alberto
Caravenna, Laura
Shen, Wen
author_facet Bressan, Alberto
Caravenna, Laura
Shen, Wen
contents Solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws can be approximated in many different ways: by vanishing viscosity, relaxations, discrete or semi-discrete numerical schemes, approximation with a nonlocal flux, etc$\ldots$ For some of these methods, general ${\bf L}^1$ convergence results are available. Aim of this paper is to understand the local behavior of these approximations, in a neighborhood of point where the hyperbolic solution has a singularity. Specifically: a point along a shock, or where two shocks interact, or where a new shock is formed. Given a sequence of $ε$-approximate solutions, a general expectation is that, by a suitable local rescaling of coordinates, as $ε\to 0$ a well defined limit is obtained. This corresponds to a specific ``eternal solution" (globally defined both in space and in time) to the approximating equation. Precise results this direction are here given, in the case of vanishing viscosity.
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spellingShingle Local Asymptotic Patterns for Viscous Approximations of Conservation Laws
Bressan, Alberto
Caravenna, Laura
Shen, Wen
Analysis of PDEs
35L65, 35L67
Solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws can be approximated in many different ways: by vanishing viscosity, relaxations, discrete or semi-discrete numerical schemes, approximation with a nonlocal flux, etc$\ldots$ For some of these methods, general ${\bf L}^1$ convergence results are available. Aim of this paper is to understand the local behavior of these approximations, in a neighborhood of point where the hyperbolic solution has a singularity. Specifically: a point along a shock, or where two shocks interact, or where a new shock is formed. Given a sequence of $ε$-approximate solutions, a general expectation is that, by a suitable local rescaling of coordinates, as $ε\to 0$ a well defined limit is obtained. This corresponds to a specific ``eternal solution" (globally defined both in space and in time) to the approximating equation. Precise results this direction are here given, in the case of vanishing viscosity.
title Local Asymptotic Patterns for Viscous Approximations of Conservation Laws
topic Analysis of PDEs
35L65, 35L67
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00189