TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Regularity of Approximate Solutions to Conservation Laws with Piecewise Smooth Solutions
AU - Tang, Tao
AU - Teng, Zhen Huan
N1 - Funding information:
Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (ttang@math.hkbu.edu.hk). The research of this author was supported by Hong Kong Baptist University and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
*Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China (tengzh@sxx0.math.pku.edu.cn). The research of this author was supported by the China State Major Key Project for Basic Research and Hong Kong Baptist University Research grant FRG/98-99/II-14. Part of this work was carried out while this author was visiting HKBU.
Publisher copyright:
Copyright © 2000 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
PY - 2000/11/17
Y1 - 2000/11/17
N2 - In this paper we address the questions of the convergence rate for approximate solutions to conservation laws with piecewise smooth solutions in a weighted W1,1 space. Convergence rate for the derivative of the approximate solutions is established under the assumption that a weak pointwise-error estimate is given. In other words, we are able to convert weak pointwise-error estimates to optimal error bounds in a weighted W1,1 space. For convex conservation laws, the assumption of a weak pointwise-error estimate is verified by Tadmor [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 28 (1991), pp. 891-906]. Therefore, one immediate application of our W1,1- convergence theory is that for convex conservation laws we indeed have W1,1-error bounds for the approximate solutions to conservation laws. Furthermore, the \cO(\en)-pointwise-error estimates of Tadmor and Tang [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 36 (1999), pp. 1739-1758] are recovered by the use of the W1,1-convergence result.
AB - In this paper we address the questions of the convergence rate for approximate solutions to conservation laws with piecewise smooth solutions in a weighted W1,1 space. Convergence rate for the derivative of the approximate solutions is established under the assumption that a weak pointwise-error estimate is given. In other words, we are able to convert weak pointwise-error estimates to optimal error bounds in a weighted W1,1 space. For convex conservation laws, the assumption of a weak pointwise-error estimate is verified by Tadmor [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 28 (1991), pp. 891-906]. Therefore, one immediate application of our W1,1- convergence theory is that for convex conservation laws we indeed have W1,1-error bounds for the approximate solutions to conservation laws. Furthermore, the \cO(\en)-pointwise-error estimates of Tadmor and Tang [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 36 (1999), pp. 1739-1758] are recovered by the use of the W1,1-convergence result.
KW - Conservation laws
KW - Error estimates
KW - Optimal convergence rate
KW - Viscosity approximation
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U2 - 10.1137/S0036142999364078
DO - 10.1137/S0036142999364078
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0042694326
SN - 0036-1429
VL - 38
SP - 1483
EP - 1495
JO - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
JF - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
IS - 5
ER -