Fractional Rate of Convergence for Viscous Approximation to Nonconvex Conservation Laws

Tao Tang*, Zhen Huan Teng, Zhouping Xin

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Abstract

This paper considers the viscous approximations to conservation laws with nonconvex flux function. It is shown that if the entropy solutions are piecewise smooth, then the rate of L1 -convergence is a fractional number in (0.5, 1]. This is in contrast to the corresponding result for the convex conservation laws. Numerical experiments indicate that the theoretical prediction for the convergence rate is optimal.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)98-122
Number of pages25
JournalSIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Volume35
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2003

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Analysis
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

User-Defined Keywords

  • Conservation law
  • Error estimate
  • Nonconvex flux
  • Rate of convergence
  • Viscous approximation

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