Long-time Stability in Systems of Conservation Laws,Using Relative Entropy/Energy

We study the long-time stability of shock-free solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, under an arbitrarily large initial disturbance in L ²∩ L ^∞. We use the relative entropy method, a robust tool which allows us to consider rough and large disturbances. We display practical examples in several space dimensions, for scalar equations as well as isentropic gas dynamics. For full gas dynamics, we use a trick from Chen [1], in which the estimate is made in terms of the relative mechanical energy instead of the relative mathematical entropy.     

Zero-Dissipation Limit of Solutions with Shocks for Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

We consider the convergence of solutions of conservation laws with viscosity to solutions having shocks of hyperbolic conservation laws without viscosity as the viscosity tends to zero. Our analysis reveals a rich structure of nonlinear wave interactions due to the presence of shocks and initial layers. These interactions generate four different wave patterns: initial layers, shock layers, diffusion waves and coupling waves. We study the propagation and interactions of the four wave patterns by a detailed pointwise analysis. (Accepted February 19, 1998)     

Criteria on Contractions for Entropic Discontinuities of Systems of Conservation Laws

We study the contraction properties (up to shift) for admissible Rankine–Hugoniot discontinuities of \({n\times n}\) systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. We first generalize the criterion developed in (Serre and Vasseur, J l’Ecole Polytech 1, 2014), using the spatially inhomogeneous pseudo-distance introduced in (Vasseur, Contemp Math AMS, 2013). Our generalized criterion guarantees the contraction property for extremal shocks of a large class of systems, including the Euler system. Moreover, we introduce necessary conditions for contraction, specifically targeted for intermediate shocks. As an application, we show that intermediate shocks of the two-dimensional isentropic magnetohydrodynamics do not verify any of our contraction properties. We also investigate the contraction properties, for contact discontinuities of the Euler system, for a certain range of contraction weights. None of the results involve any smallness condition on the initial perturbation or on the size of the shock.     

Non-Classical Shocks and Kinetic Relations: Scalar Conservation Laws

This paper analyzes the non-classical shock waves which arise as limits of certain diffusive-dispersive approximations to hyperbolic conservation laws. Such shocks occur for non-convex fluxes and connect regions of different convexity. They have negative entropy dissipation for a single convex entropy function, but not all convex entropies, and do not obey the classical Oleinik entropy criterion. We derive necessary conditions for the existence of non-classical shock waves, and construct them as limits of traveling-wave solutions for several diffusive-dispersive approximations. We introduce a “kinetic relation” to act as a selection principle for choosing a unique non-classical solution to the Riemann problem. The convergence to non-classical weak solutions for the Cauchy problem is investigated. Using numerical experiments, we demonstrate that, for the cubic flux-function, the Beam-Warming scheme produces non-classical shocks while no such shocks are observed with the Lax-Wendroff scheme. All of these results depend crucially on the sign of the dispersion coefficient. (Accepted February 8, 1996)     

Stability of Contact Discontinuities for the 1-D Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

In this paper, we study the large-time asymptotic behavior of solutions of the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes system toward a contact discontinuity, which is one of the basic wave patterns for the compressible Euler equations. It is proved that such a weak contact discontinuity is a metastable wave pattern, in the sense introduced in [24], for the 1-D compressible Navier-Stokes system for polytropic fluid by showing that a viscous contact wave, which approximates the contact discontinuity on any finite-time interval for small heat conduction and then runs away from it for large time, is nonlinearly stable with a uniform convergence rate provided that the initial excess mass is zero. This result is proved by an elaborate combination of elementary energy estimates with a weighted characteristic energy estimate, which makes full use of the underlying structure of the viscous contact wave.     

Structure of Entropy Solutions for Multi-Dimensional Scalar Conservation Laws

An entropy solution u of a multi-dimensional scalar conservation law is not necessarily in BV, even if the conservation law is genuinely nonlinear. We show that u nevertheless has the structure of a BV function in the sense that the shock location is codimension-one rectifiable. This result highlights the regularizing effect of genuine nonlinearity in a qualitative way; it is based on the locally finite rate of entropy dissipation. The proof relies on the geometric classification of blow-ups in the framework of the kinetic formulation.     

Asymptotic Stability of Riemann Solutions for a Class of Multidimensional Systems of Conservation Laws with Viscosity

We prove the asymptotic stability of two-state nonplanar Riemann solutions for a class of multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws when the initial data are perturbed and viscosity is added. The class considered here is those systems whose flux functions in different directions share a common complete system of Riemann invariants, the level surfaces of which are hyperplanes. In particular, we obtain the uniqueness of the self-similar L^∞ entropy solution of the two-state nonplanar Riemann problem. The asymptotic stability to which the main result refers is in the sense of the convergence as t→∞ in L_loc¹ of the space of directions ξ = x/t. That is, the solution u(t, x) of the perturbed problem satisfies u(t, tξ)→R(ξ) as t→∞, in L_loc¹(ℝⁿ), where R(ξ) is the self-similar entropy solution of the corresponding two-state nonplanar Riemann problem.     

Stability Analysis of Continuous Systems with Structural Perturbations

The paper is a survey of the development of the direct Lyapunov method based on matrix-valued functions for systems with structural perturbations. Sufficient conditions for stability in the large, uniform asymptotic stability in the large, exponential stability in the large, and instability of nonlinear continuous systems under structural perturbations are presented.     

Decay of Entropy Solutions of Nonlinear Conservation Laws

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Dissipative Structure and Entropy for Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws

In this paper, we introduce an entropy condition for hyperbolic systems of balance laws. Under this condition, we use the Chapman-Enskog expansion to derive the corresponding viscous conservation laws. Further structural conditions are discussed in order to develop (local and global) existence theories for the balance laws and viscous conservation laws.Acknowledgement The research of S. KAWASHIMA was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 14340047), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Japan. The reseach of W.-A. YONG was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the Schwerpunktprogramm ANumE and SFB 359 at the University of Heidelberg and by the European TMR-Network Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations.     

Existence Theory for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with General Flux-Functions

c ). To begin with, we assume that the flux-function f(u) is piecewise genuinely nonlinear, in the sense that it exhibits finitely many (at most p, say) points of lack of genuine nonlinearity along each wave curve. Importantly, our analysis applies to arbitrary large p, in the sense that the constant c restricting the total variation is independent of p. Second, by an approximation argument, we prove that the existence theory above extends to general flux-functions f(u) that can be approached by a sequence of piecewise genuinely nonlinear flux-functions f ^ε(u). The main contribution in this paper is the derivation of uniform estimates for the wave curves and wave interactions (which are entirely independent of the properties of the flux-function) together with a new wave interaction potential which is decreasing in time and is a fully local functional depending upon the angle made by any two propagating discontinuities. Our existence theory applies, for instance, to the p-system of gas dynamics for general pressure-laws p=p(v) satisfying solely the hyperbolicity condition p′(v)<0 but no convexity assumption. (Accepted December 30, 2002) Published online April 23, 2003 Communicated by C. M. Dafermos     

Well-Posedness for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with Large BV Data

We study the Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic n×n system of conservation laws in one space dimension assuming that the initial data has bounded but possibly large total variation. Under a linearized stability condition on the Riemann problems generated by the jumps in we prove existence and uniqueness of a (local in time) BV solution, depending continuously on the initial data in L¹_loc. The last section contains an application to the 3×3 system of gas dynamics.     

Hamilton系统的一类新型守恒律

研究Hamilton系统的Lie对称性与守恒律。根据微分方程在无限小群变换下的不变性理论，建立了Hamilton系统仅依赖于正则变量的无限小群变换的Lie对称变换，给出了Lie对称性的确定方程，并直接由系统的Lie对称性得到了系统的一类新型定恒律。文末，举例说明结果的应用。     

求解多维双曲守恒律方程组的四阶半离散格式

提出了求解多维双曲守恒律方程组的四阶半离散格式。该方法以中心加权基本无振荡(CWENO)重构为基础,同时考虑到在R iemann扇内波传播的局部速度,从而回避了计算过程中的网格交错,建立了数值耗散较小的介于迎风格式和中心格式之间的半离散格式。本文的四阶半离散格式是Kurganov等人的三阶半离散格式的高阶推广。大量的数值算例充分说明了本文方法的高分辨率和稳定性。     

Stability of Singularly Perturbed Systems with Structural Perturbations. General Theory

Singularly perturbed systems with structural perturbations are analyzed for stability. New sufficient conditions of asymptotic stability and uniform asymptotic stability are established. The systems in question are widely used in control theory, engineering, etc     

Global BV Entropy Solutions and Uniqueness for Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws

We consider the Cauchy problem for n×n strictly hyperbolic systems of nonresonant balance laws each characteristic field being genuinely nonlinear or linearly degenerate. Assuming that and are small enough, we prove the existence and uniqueness of global entropy solutions of bounded total variation as limits of special wave-front tracking approximations for which the source term is localized by means of Dirac masses. Moreover, we give a characterization of the resulting semigroup trajectories in terms of integral estimates.     

Stability of Singularly Perturbed Systems with Structural Perturbations. Some Applications

Singularly perturbed systems with structural perturbations are analyzed for stability on the basis of matrix-valued Lyapunov functions. Sufficient conditions of stability and uniform asymptotic stability for automatic control and stabilization systems of an orbital observatory are established     

A Note on the Theory of Stability of Impulsive Systems with Structural Perturbations

New conditions of stability in two measures are established for nonlinear impulsive systems with structural perturbations. A list of two measures used in the nonlinear dynamics of pulse systems is presented     

Uniqueness of Weak Solutions to Systems of Conservation Laws

Consider a strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws in one space dimension: Relying on the existence of the Standard Riemann Semigroup generated by , we establish the uniqueness of entropy-admissible weak solutions to the Cauchy problem, under a mild assumption on the variation of along space-like segments.     

Technical Stability of Discontinuous Control Systems with a Continuous Set of Initial Perturbations

Conditions of technical stability in a given measure are derived for autonomous dynamic discontinuous-control systems for all possible initial states in a given domain of admissible initial perturbations of the output processes. The criteria formulated depend on the properties of the roots of the secular equation of a given quadratic form assigned to the control system under investigation