Convergence of the viscosity method for the systems of isentropic gas dynamics in Lagrangian coordinates (Q685792)

This paper is a continuation of the paper [the authors, Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 16, No. 8/9, 1441-1460 (1991; Zbl 0736.76036)]. We consider the Cauchy problem for the systems of isentropic gas dynamics equations in Lagrangian coordinates \(u_ t + p(v)_ x = 0\), \(v_ t - u_ x = 0\), \(x \in\mathbb{R}\), \(t \in\mathbb{R}_ +\), \((u(x,0),v(x,0)) = (u_ 0(x), v_ 0(x))\), \(x \in\mathbb{R}\), where the pressure \(p = p(v) > 0\) is a \(C^ 4\) function of the specific volume \(v > 0\) and \(u\) is the velocity of the flow. The main result is to show that if the flows contain only bounded smooth rarefaction waves in the initial instant, then the solutions of the system with viscous terms and the above initial data are uniformly bounded with respect to the small viscosity coefficient.