| Abstract: | In this paper we propose a spectral element: vanishing viscosity (SEW) method for the conservation laws on the semi-infinite interval. By using a suitable mapping, the problem is first transformed into a modified conservation law in a bounded interval, then the well-known spectral vanishing viscosity technique is generalized to the multi-domain case in order to approximate this trarsformed equation more efficiently. The construction details and convergence analysis are presented. Under a usual assumption of boundedness of the approximation solutions, it is proven that the solution of the SEW approximation converges to the uniciue entropy solution of the conservation laws. A number of numerical tests is carried out to confirm the theoretical results. |
