Stability of dispersive boundary layers for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension

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Hauptverfasser: Antonelli, Paolo, Marcati, Pierangelo, Spinolo, Laura V.
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author Antonelli, Paolo
Marcati, Pierangelo
Spinolo, Laura V.
author_facet Antonelli, Paolo
Marcati, Pierangelo
Spinolo, Laura V.
contents We study the zero-dispersion limit for a class of Korteweg--de Vries (KdV)-type initial-boundary value problems on the half-line, with Dirichlet boundary conditions assigned at \(x=0\). We focus on the outflow regime, where the solution of the limiting scalar conservation law does not attain the boundary condition imposed on the dispersive problem. We construct a boundary layer profile, depending on the fast variable, which is uniquely determined, through the associated stationary third-order boundary layer equation, by the mismatch between the boundary conditions, and by the exponential decay at infinity in the fast variable. Our main result shows that, under suitable regularity and compatibility assumptions on the data, the dispersive solution is well approximated by a WKB expansion given by the sum of the smooth solution of the conservation law and the boundary layer profile. In particular, we establish stability of the boundary layer profile by proving quantitative estimates for the remainder term in a weighted energy norm, and show that it converges to $0$ in $H^1$, uniformly in time and up to the lifespan of the smooth solution of the conservation law. The proof is based on the analysis of a linearized energy functional and does not rely on complete integrability or inverse scattering techniques. It applies to general fluxes and requires no smallness assumption on the amplitude of the boundary layer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first stability result for boundary layers of KdV-type equation on the half line.
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spellingShingle Stability of dispersive boundary layers for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension
Antonelli, Paolo
Marcati, Pierangelo
Spinolo, Laura V.
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Primary: 35L65, Secondary: 35Q53, 35B35
We study the zero-dispersion limit for a class of Korteweg--de Vries (KdV)-type initial-boundary value problems on the half-line, with Dirichlet boundary conditions assigned at \(x=0\). We focus on the outflow regime, where the solution of the limiting scalar conservation law does not attain the boundary condition imposed on the dispersive problem. We construct a boundary layer profile, depending on the fast variable, which is uniquely determined, through the associated stationary third-order boundary layer equation, by the mismatch between the boundary conditions, and by the exponential decay at infinity in the fast variable. Our main result shows that, under suitable regularity and compatibility assumptions on the data, the dispersive solution is well approximated by a WKB expansion given by the sum of the smooth solution of the conservation law and the boundary layer profile. In particular, we establish stability of the boundary layer profile by proving quantitative estimates for the remainder term in a weighted energy norm, and show that it converges to $0$ in $H^1$, uniformly in time and up to the lifespan of the smooth solution of the conservation law. The proof is based on the analysis of a linearized energy functional and does not rely on complete integrability or inverse scattering techniques. It applies to general fluxes and requires no smallness assumption on the amplitude of the boundary layer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first stability result for boundary layers of KdV-type equation on the half line.
title Stability of dispersive boundary layers for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Primary: 35L65, Secondary: 35Q53, 35B35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25853