Effects of small viscosity and far field boundary conditions for hyperbolic systems (Q1766503)

The authors investigate the system of convection-diffusion equations \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} \partial_tu^{\varepsilon}+\partial_xu^{\varepsilon}&=\varepsilon\partial_x^2u^{\varepsilon}\\ \partial_tv^{\varepsilon}-\partial_xv^{\varepsilon}&=\varepsilon \partial_x^2v^{\varepsilon},\quad x>0,\quad t>0,\end{aligned}\right. \] with the boundary condition \[ D\left(\begin{matrix} u^{\varepsilon}\\v^{\varepsilon}\end{matrix}\right)(0,t)+E\left(\begin{matrix} \partial_xu^{\varepsilon}\\ \partial_xv^{\varepsilon}\end{matrix}\right)(0,t)=\left(\begin{matrix} f_1(t)\\f_2(t)\end{matrix}\right),\quad t\geq 0 \] and the initial data \[ u^{\varepsilon}(x,0)=u_0(x),\quad v^{\varepsilon}(x,0)=v_0(x),\quad x\geq 0, \] where \(\varepsilon>0\) is very small and represents the total dissipation, \(D\) and \(E\) are suitable \(2\times 2\) constant matrices with \(\text{rank}(D,E)=2\). The above problem is solved explicitly by the Laplace transform and then, using boundary layer structures and asymptotic analysis the behavior of the solution as \(\varepsilon \to 0\) is studied. Convergence estimates for zero and nonzero initial data, and Neumann boundary conditions or mixed boundary conditions are also obtained.