Numerical survey on hyperbolicity of the homogenized equation for van der Waals gas in Eulerian coordinates (Q936163)

By considering the van der Waals equations for an isentropic gas in eulerian coordinates as an example system, the author describes numerical methods for the location of the zero set of the Evans function \(D(\xi, \lambda)\) for \(\xi, \lambda\) sufficiently small, or equivalently the spectrum of a linearized operator \(L\) with periodic coefficients through homogenization. The author then determines the hyperbolicity of the averaged system of the model numerically since hyperbolicity is necessary to show asymptotic behavior of a multi-dimensional single periodic wave of systems of conservation laws with viscosity under small perturbation.