Construction of approximate entropy measure-valued solutions for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws (Q2362289)

The notion of entropy solution has been widely used as a main tool to interpret the notion of solutions for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws in \(d\) dimensions. However, some recent results, e.g. \textit{C. De Lellis} and \textit{L. Székelyhidi jun.} [Ann. Math. (2) 170, No. 3, 1417--1436 (2009; Zbl 1350.35146)] and \textit{E. Chiodaroli} et al. [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 68, No. 7, 1157--1190 (2015; Zbl 1323.35137)], have proved that entropy solutions may not be unique. In this paper, the authors present some numerical schemes in several space dimensions in which there is no convergence to an entropy solution of systems of conservation laws as the mesh is refined. Consequently, the authors think that entropy solutions may not be suitable as a solution framework for systems of conservation laws and they support the notion of entropy measure-valued solutions, first proposed by DiPerna, as the appropriate solution paradigm for systems of conservation laws. For this reason, the authors present a detailed numerical procedure which constructs stable approximations to entropy measure-valued solutions, and provide sufficient conditions that guarantee that these approximations converge to an entropy measure-valued solution as the mesh is refined along with a viable numerical framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. Several numerical experiments which illustrate the proposed paradigm are presented and are used to examine some interesting properties of the computed entropy measure-valued solutions.