TY - JOUR
T1 - Vanishing viscosity and backward Euler approximations for conservation laws with discontinuous flux
AU - Guerra, Graziano
AU - Shen, Wen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Solutions to a class of one-dimensional conservation laws with discontinuous flux are constructed relying on the Crandall-Liggett theory of nonlinear contractive semigroups [H. Br\'ezis and A. Pazy, J. Functional Analysis, 9 (1972), pp. 63-74, M. G. Crandall and T. M. Liggett, Amer. J. Math., 93 (1971), pp. 265-298], with a vanishing viscosity approach. The solutions to the corresponding viscous conservation laws are studied using the backward Euler approximations. We prove their convergence to a unique vanishing viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem for the nonviscous equations as the viscous parameter tends to zero. This approach allows us to avoid the technicalities in existing literature, such as traces, Riemann problems, interface conditions, compensated compactness and entropy inequalities. Consequently, we establish our result under very mild assumptions on the flux, with only a requirement on the smoothness with respect to the unknown variable and a condition that allows the application of the maximum principle.
AB - Solutions to a class of one-dimensional conservation laws with discontinuous flux are constructed relying on the Crandall-Liggett theory of nonlinear contractive semigroups [H. Br\'ezis and A. Pazy, J. Functional Analysis, 9 (1972), pp. 63-74, M. G. Crandall and T. M. Liggett, Amer. J. Math., 93 (1971), pp. 265-298], with a vanishing viscosity approach. The solutions to the corresponding viscous conservation laws are studied using the backward Euler approximations. We prove their convergence to a unique vanishing viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem for the nonviscous equations as the viscous parameter tends to zero. This approach allows us to avoid the technicalities in existing literature, such as traces, Riemann problems, interface conditions, compensated compactness and entropy inequalities. Consequently, we establish our result under very mild assumptions on the flux, with only a requirement on the smoothness with respect to the unknown variable and a condition that allows the application of the maximum principle.
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U2 - 10.1137/18M1205662
DO - 10.1137/18M1205662
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075504888
SN - 0036-1410
VL - 51
SP - 3112
EP - 3144
JO - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
JF - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
IS - 4
ER -