The zero relaxation limit for the hydrodynamic Whitham traffic flow model

DOI10.1006/JDEQ.1997.3311MaRDI QIDQ1377546zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pierangelo Marcati, Corrado Lattanzio

Publication date 26 January 1998

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jdeq.1997.3311

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^\infty\) estimatesentropy solutionsexistence of weak entropy solutionsKružkov-type entropy conditionsrate of convergence toward the equilibriumrelaxation phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35)

Review text

The authors analyze the relaxation of the weak solutions to the following hyperbolic system of balance laws: \[ \rho_t +m_x=0,\;m_t +\bigl[m^2/ \rho+p (\rho)\bigr]_x = \tau^{-1} \bigl[Q (\rho)- m\bigr], \] where \(p=h \rho^\gamma\), \(1<\gamma <3\), \(h= (\gamma-1)^2/4 \gamma\), \(Q=a \rho (1-\rho)\), \(a>0\) and the initial data are taken in \(L^\infty (\mathbb{R})\). The system models the traffic flow. This kind of models has been introduced by Whitham, 1974. The strong convergence to the equilibrium solution satisfying Kružkov-type entropy conditions is shown provided that the relaxation parameter tends to zero away from the vacuum. Fundamental \(L^\infty\) estimates are obtained by using special geometry of the graph of \(Q(\rho)\) and also the theory of invariant regions. It is derived a special energy estimate which puts into evidence the dissipative nature of the relaxation process and provides the rate of convergence toward the equilibrium as \(\tau \to 0\). The estimate is obtained under entropy conditions and by vanishing artificial viscosity. A consequence of these estimates is the existence of weak entropy solutions to the full hydrodynamic model for any \(\tau>0\).

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