Stability of contact discontinuity for Jin-Xin relaxation system (Q2475091)

The authors construct a contact wave for the relaxation system \(u_t+v_x=0\), \(v_t+a^2u_x=(f(u)-v)/\{\varepsilon \},\) where \(x\in\mathbb R\), \(t>0\) and \(u,v\) are vector-valued functions in \(\mathbb R^n,\) designed by \textit{S. Jin} and \textit{Z. Xin} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 48, No. 3, 235--276 (1995; Zbl 0826.65078)] to approximate the strictly hyperbolic system \(u_t+f(u)_x=0.\) The wave is shown to be nonlinearly stable under small initial perturbations. Time-decay rate is obtained with use of weighted energy estimates.