The boundary Riemann solver coming from the real vanishing viscosity approximation (Q1000562)

This paper deals with an initial boundary value problem involving a hyperbolic-parabolic system with constant data that solves a boundary Riemann problem; the work carried out in this article provides a characterization of the limit of hyperbolic-parabolic approximation. The boundary characteristic case that includes the possibility for the coefficient matrix associated with the hyperbolic system to have a zero eigenvalue is analysed. Also, the possibility for the viscosity matrix to be invertible or non-invertible is accounted for by assuming that certain conditions relying on certain physical examples hold. A condition of block linear degeneracy is introduced, which on being violated, may yield solutions which are not \(C^1\); this is contrary to our expectations that the parabolic approximation has a regularizing effect.