POINTWISE CONVERGENCE RATE OF VANISHING VISCOSITY APPROXIMATIONS FOR SCALAR CONSERVATION LAWS WITH BOUNDARY

This article is concerned with the pointwise error estimates for vanishing vis- cosity approximations to scalar convex conservation laws with boundary.By the weighted error function and a bootstrap extrapolation technique introduced by Tadmor-Tang,an optimal pointwise convergence rate is derived for the vanishing viscosity approximations to the initial-boundary value problem for scalar convex conservation laws,whose weak entropy solution is piecewise C 2 -smooth with interaction of elementary waves and the ...     

EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL SMOOTH SOLUTION FOR SCALAR CONSERVATION LAWS WITH DEGENERATE VISCOSITY IN 2-DIMENSIONAL SPACE

This article concerns the existence of global smooth solution for scalar conservation laws with degenerate viscosity in 2-dimensional space. The analysis is based on successive approximation and maximum principle.     

DECAY RATES AND CONVERGENCE OF SOLUTIONS TO SYSTEM OP ONE-DIMENSIONAL VISCOELASTIC MODEL WITH DAMPING

This paper considers the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the system of one-dimensional viscoelastic model with damping and prove that the corresponding solutions time-asymptotically behave like nonlinear diffusion wave as in [4,11]. In addition, It is also shown that the system of one-dimensional viscoelastic model with damping is a viscosity approximation of a hyperbolic conservation laws with damping.     

DECAY RATES AND CONVERGENCE OFSOLUTIONS TO SYSTEM OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL VISCOELASTIC MODEL WITH DAMPING

This paper considers the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the system of one-dimensional viscoelastic model with damping and prove that the corresponding solutions time-asymptotically behave like nonlinear diffusion wave as in [4,11]. In addition, It is also shown that the system of one-dimensional viscoelastic model with damping is a viscosity approximation of a hyperbolic conservation laws with damping.     

SPECTRAL/HP ELEMENT METHOD WITH HIERARCHICAL RECONSTRUCTION FOR SOLVING NONLINEAR HYPERBOLIC CONSERVATION LAWS

The hierarchical reconstruction （HR） [Liu, Shu, Tadmor and Zhang, SINUM ＇07] has been successfully applied to prevent oscillations in solutions computed by finite volume, Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin, spectral volume schemes for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. In this paper, we demonstrate that HR can also be combined with spectral/hp element method for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. An orthogonal spectral basis written in terms of Jacobi polynomials is applied. High computational efficiency is obtained due to such matrix-free algorithm. The formulation is conservative, and essential nomoscillation is enforced by the HR limiter. We show that HR preserves the order of accuracy of the spectral/hp element method for smooth solution problems and generate essentially non-oscillatory solutions profiles for capturing discontinuous solutions without local characteristic decomposition. In addition, we introduce a postprocessing technique to improve HR for limiting high degree numerical solutions.     

The Brio System with Initial Conditions Involving Dirac Masses: A Result Afforded by a Distributional Product

The Brio system is a 2 × 2 fully nonlinear system of conservation laws which arises as a simplified model in the study of plasmas. The present paper offers explicit solutions to this system subjected to initial conditions containing Dirac masses. The concept of a solution emerges within the framework of a distributional product and represents a consistent extension of the concept of a classical solution. Among other features, the result shows that the space of measures is not sufficient to contain all solutions of this problem.     

SBV REGULARITY OF GENUINELY NONLINEAR HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION LAWS IN ONE SPACE DIMENSION

The problem of the presence of Cantor part in the derivative of a solution to a hyperbolic system of conservation laws is considered.An overview of the techniques involved in the proof is given,and a c...     

SBV REGULARITY OF GENUINELY NONLINEAR HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION LAWS IN ONE SPACE DIMENSION Dedicated to Professor Constantine M. Dafermos on the occasion of his 70th birthday

The problem of the presence of Cantor part in the derivative of a solution to a hyperbolic system of conservation laws is considered.An overview of the techniques involved in the proof is given,and a collection of related problems concludes the paper.     

ANTI-DIFFUSIVE FINITE DIFFERENCE WENO METHODS FOR SHALLOW WATER WITH TRANSPORT OF POLLUTANT

In this paper we further explore and apply our recent anti-diffusive flux corrected highorder finite difference WENO schemes for conservation laws [18] to compute the Saint-Venant system of shallow water equations with pollutant propagation, which is describedby a transport equation. The motivation is that the high order anti-diffusive WENOscheme for conservation laws produces sharp resolution of contact discontinuities whilekeeping high order accuracy for the approximation in the smooth region of the solution.The application of the anti-diffusive high order WENO scheme to the Saint-Venant systemof shallow water equations with transport of pollutant achieves high resolution     

The Cauchy problem for fractional conservation laws driven by Lévy noise

In this article, we explore some of the main mathematical problems connected to multidimensional fractional conservation laws driven by Lévy processes. Making use of an adapted entropy formulation, a result of existence and uniqueness of a solution is established. Moreover, using bounded variation (BV) estimates for vanishing viscosity approximations, we derive an explicit continuous dependence estimate on the nonlinearities of the entropy solutions under the assumption that the Lévy noise depends only on the solution. This result is used to show the error estimate for the stochastic vanishing viscosity method. Furthermore, we establish a result on vanishing non-local regularization of scalar stochastic conservation laws.     

Vanishing viscosity approximation to hyperbolic conservation laws

We study high order convergence of vanishing viscosity approximation to scalar hyperbolic conservation laws in one space dimension. We prove that, under suitable assumptions, in the region where the solution is smooth, the viscous solution admits an expansion in powers of the viscosity parameter ε. This allows an extrapolation procedure that yields high order approximation to the non-viscous limit as ε→0. Furthermore, an integral across a shock also admits a power expansion of ε, which allows us to construct high order approximation to the location of the shock. Numerical experiments are presented to justify our theoretical findings.     

A variational approach to the inviscous limit of fractional conservation laws

We are concerned with a control problem related to the vanishing fractional viscosity approximation to scalar conservation laws. We investigate the Γ-convergence of the control cost functional, as the viscosity coefficient tends to zero.     

Selection problems of $${{\mathbb {Z}}}^2$$-periodic entropy solutions and viscosity solutions

\({{\mathbb {Z}}}^2\)-periodic entropy solutions of hyperbolic scalar conservation laws and \({{\mathbb {Z}}}^2\)-periodic viscosity solutions of Hamilton–Jacobi equations are not unique in general. However, uniqueness holds for viscous scalar conservation laws and viscous Hamilton–Jacobi equations. Bessi (Commun Math Phys 235:495–511, 2003) investigated the convergence of approximate \({{\mathbb {Z}}}^2\)-periodic solutions to an exact one in the process of the vanishing viscosity method, and characterized this physically natural \({{\mathbb {Z}}}^2\)-periodic solution with the aid of Aubry–Mather theory. In this paper, a similar problem is considered in the process of the finite difference approximation under hyperbolic scaling. We present a selection criterion different from the one in the vanishing viscosity method, which may depend on the approximation parameter.     

Padé–Jacobi Filtering for Spectral Approximations of Discontinuous Solutions

Spectral type methods for the discretization of partial differential equations rely on the approximation of the solution by polynomials of high degree. These methods are proven, both theoretically and numerically, to be of infinite order of accuracy. This infinite order is achieved if the solution is very regular. On the other hand, the Gibbs phenomenon prevents – a priori – the good convergence if the solution is discontinuous. Nevertheless, for systems of conservation laws, the spectral vanishing viscosity method leads to numerical solutions that are spectrally close to the projection of the exact solution on the set of polynomials. The idea is then to postprocess the numerical solution in order to extract pertinent physical information. The aim of this paper is to propose and analyse such a postprocessing method based on rational approximants that allows to circumvent the Gibbs phenomenon and can be used as an acceleration device for spectral numerical solution.     

Nonuniqueness for the vanishing viscosity solution with fixed initial condition in a nonstrictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws

We consider the Riemann problem for a system of two decoupled, nonstrictly hyperbolic, Burgers-like conservation equations with added artificial viscosity. We analytically establish two different vanishing viscosity limits for the solution of this system, which correspond to the two cases where one of the viscosities vanishes much faster than the other. This is done without altering the initial condition as is necessary with travelling wave methods. Numerical evidence is then provided to show that when the two viscosities vanish at the same rate, the solution converges to a limit that lies strictly between the two previously established limits. Finally, we use control theory to explain the mechanism behind this nonuniqueness behavior, which indicates other systems of nonstrictly hyperbolic conservation laws where nonuniqueness will occur.     

非线性守恒方程的两种稳定化谱元方法

考虑非线性守恒方程的高阶数值解法,介绍了基于谱元法的两种稳定性方法,一种是谱粘性消去法(SVV),另一种是过滤法.在SVV方法中,我们推广并分析了传统的基于单区域的SVV算子的定义.在过滤法中,我们分析了SVV-H elm holtz过滤算子的性质.文中从分析和计算两方面对两种方法进行了比较,建立了两者之间的关系.最后通过一系列数值试验说明方法的有效性.     

Viscosity solutions with shocks

A solution of single nonlinear first order equations may develop jump discontinuities even if initial data is smooth. Typical examples include a crude model equation describing some bunching phenomena observed in epitaxial growth of crystals as well as conservation laws where jump discontinuities are called shocks. Conventional theory of viscosity solutions does not apply. We introduce a notion of proper (viscosity) solutions to track whole evolutions for such equations in multi‐dimensional spaces. We establish several versions of comparison principles. We also study the vanishing viscosity method to construct a unique global proper solution at least when the evolution is monotone in time or the initial data is monotone in some sense under additional technical assumptions. In fact, we prove that the graph of approximate solutions converges to that of a proper solution in the Hausdorff distance topology. Such a convergence is also established for conservation laws with monotone data. In particular, local uniform convergence outside shocks is proved. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

On travelling-wave solutions to systems of conservation laws with singular viscosity

Abstract. The method of vanishing artificial viscosity is used to obtain smooth, largedata travelling-wave solutions to a class of conservation laws with semidefinite viscosity. The one-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations serve as an illustrating example.