Vanishing Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems

Details Vanishing Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems Vanishing Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems

2001-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/math/0111321v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

99 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

We consider the Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic, $n\times n$ system in one space dimension: $u_t+A(u)u_x=0$, assuming that the initial data has small total variation. We show that the solutions of the viscous approximations $u_t+A(u)u_x=\ve u_{xx}$ are defined globally in time and satisfy uniform BV estimates, independent of $\ve$. Moreover, they depend continuously on the initial data in the $\L^1$ distance, with a Lipschitz constant independent of $t,\ve$. Letting $\ve\to 0$, these viscous solutions converge to a unique limit, depending Lipschitz continuously on the initial data. In the conservative case where $A=Df$ is the Jacobian of some flux function $f:\R^n\mapsto\R^n$, the vanishing viscosity limits are precisely the unique entropy weak solutions to the system of conservation laws $u_t+f(u)_x=0$.

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