Convergence \& rates for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Kirchoff junction conditions (Q1986973)

This is an interesting study and the author investigate rates of convergence for two approximation schemes of time-independent and time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations on junctions with Kirchhoff conditions. The author presents a number of new techniques of independent interest, including a quantified comparison proof for the Cauchy problem and an equivalent definition of the Kirchhoff junction condition. The aim of this work is mainly to study on the one hand a numerical approximation of a first order Hamilton-Jacobi equation posed on a junction. On the other hand, the author concerned with the stability and the exact indirect boundary controllability of coupled wave equations in a one-dimensional setting. Firstly, using the Crandall-Lions technique, he establishes an error estimate of a finite difference scheme for maximal flux-limited junction conditions, associated to a first order Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The author finds similarities between the Kirchhoff junction condition and Neumann boundary conditions, these similarities are exposed in the present work. Most notably, they rely on a continuity property of the junction condition that was first recognized by Lions. The error estimate for the vanishing viscosity approximation of the problem is obtained by doubling variables and using a test function that forces the variable associated with $u^{\epsilon}$ away from the junction. This approach combined with an auxiliary lemma on the continuity of the junction condition suffices to carry through a modified version of the classical proof. The author proves afterwards that the scheme can generally be extended to general junction conditions, then proves the convergence of the numerical solution towards the viscosity solution of the continuous problem. Afterwards a new approach is adopted, using the Crandall-Lions technique, in order to improve the error estimates for the finite difference scheme already introduced, for a class of well chosen Hamiltonians. The comparison principle is proved using the continuity properties of sub-differentials (resp., super-differentials) of semi-convex (resp., semi-concave) functions. In order to obtain a rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity limit, the author estimates the modulus of continuity of these multi-valued maps at a maximum point.