Convergence and error estimates of relaxation schemes for multidimensional conservation laws (Q4242977)

The paper describes the construction and analysis of semidiscrete and fully relaxation schemes for the approximation of the unique global weak solution of the scalar multidimensional conservation law, \[ \partial_tu+ \sum^N_{i=1} \partial_{x_i}F_i(u)= 0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^n,\;t>0,\tag{1} \] \[ u(x,0)= u_0(x)\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N), \] satisfying the Kruzhkov entropy conditions. Thereby, relaxation schemes induced by discretizing a system of the form \[ \begin{aligned} \partial_tw^\varepsilon+ \sum^N_{i=1}\overline A_i\partial_{x_i} w^\varepsilon &= {1\over\varepsilon} \sum^N_{i=1} (h_i(\omega^\varepsilon)- z^\varepsilon_i),\\ \partial_t z^\varepsilon_i- A_i\partial_{x_i} z^\varepsilon_i & ={1\over\varepsilon} (h_i(w^\varepsilon)- z^\varepsilon_i),\quad i=1,\dots, N,\end{aligned} \] yielding approximations to the solution of the multidimensional scalar conservation law (1), as \(\varepsilon\to 0\), are studied. The problem is used as a benchmark for understanding stability, convergence and error estimates for such schemes.