Vanishing Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems

dc.creatorBianchini, Stefano
dc.creatorBressan, Alberto
dc.date2001-11-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:44:53Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:44:53Z
dc.descriptionWe 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 $Ł^1$ 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 $u_t+f(u)_x=0$.
dc.description99 pages, 13 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111321
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111321
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/62774
dc.subjectAnalysis of PDEs
dc.subject35L65
dc.titleVanishing Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems
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