Convergence of a continuous BGK model for initial boundary-value problems for conservation laws (Q2761579)

The author considers a scalar conservation law in the quarter plane, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\partial_tu+\partial_xF(u)=0, \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb R \times (0,T), \tag{i}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(F\) is a smooth flux function, with the initial condition \(u(x,0)=u^0(x)\), for \(x\in\mathbb R^+\). The boundary condition \(u(0,t)=u_b(t)\) for \(t\geq 0\), is formulated as a compatibility, \(\sup\{\)sgn\( (u(0,t)-u_b(t))(F(u(0,t))-F(k))\}=0\) for \(t\in [0,T]\), where \(\sup\) is taken over \(k\) lying between \(u(0,t)\) and \(u_b(t)\). The problem is considered as an equilibrium for the scalar kinetic model of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) with (eventually) infinite set of velocities, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\partial_tf+a(\xi)\partial_xf={M_f-f\over \varepsilon} , \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb R\times (0,T), \tag{ii}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\xi \) is in a measure space \(\Xi \) with measure \(d\xi \), \(f(x,t,\xi)\) is the unknown depending on \(\varepsilon \), \(a(\xi)\) is the velocity and \(M_f(x,t,\xi)=M(u^{\varepsilon }(x,t),\xi)\), \(u^{\varepsilon }(x,t)=\int f(x,t,\xi)d\xi \) are the Maxwellian or equilibrium state, and the first momentum or density, respectively. The (BGK) model is supplemented by the initial and boundary data \(f(x,0,\xi)=M(u^0(x),\xi)\) for \((x,\xi)\in \mathbb R^+\)\(\times \Xi \) and \(f(0,t,\xi)=M(u_b(t),\xi)\) if \(a(\xi)>0\) for \(t\in [0,T]\). If \(\varepsilon \to 0\), then \(f(x,t,\xi)\) is near \(M(u(x,t),\xi)\) and therefore, it is assumed the initial-boundary data to be at equilibrium. The author shows that the above stated (BGK) model (ii) describes the problem (i) in the case \(\varepsilon \to 0\). This is made in a bounded variation (BV) framework, for general flux \(F\) and general BV-initial-boundary data \(u^0\) and \(u_b\). The convergence of the model (ii) towards the unique entropy solution is established in the space of BV-functions, using kinetic entropy inequalities, without special restriction on the flux nor on the equilibrium problem's data. As an application it is established the hydrodynamic limit for \(2\times 2\) relaxation system with general data. A new family of convergent continuous BGK models with simple Maxwellians different from the \(\chi \) models is constructed.