Nonuniqueness for the vanishing viscosity solution with fixed initial condition in a nonstrictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws (Q2642166)

The author establishes nonuniqueness for the vanishing viscosity limit of a system of two nonstrictly hyperbolic conservation laws without using travelling wave methods. The author's method has the advantage of permitting the Riemann initial conditions to stay constant as the viscosity vanishes, although it appears not to be extendable to the wide class of systems covered by the travelling wave method. This method is applied to a simple nonstrictly hyperbolic example system in Hamilton-Jacobi form to recover both the presence of undercompressive waves and the nonuniqueness of the solution (in the sense that the vanishing viscosity limit depends upon the manner in which the viscosity vanishes). Numerical evidence is provided to show that when the two viscosities vanish at the same rate, the solution converges to a limit that lies strictly between the two previously established limits.