Construction of approximate entropy measure-valued solutions for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws

entropy condition entropy measure-valued solutions hyperbolic conservation laws numerical experiment stability uniqueness weak BV estimate weak\(^*\) convergence

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Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) PDEs with measure (35R06) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

Abstract: Entropy solutions have been widely accepted as the suitable solution framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. However, recent results in cite{CDL1,CDL2} have demonstrated that entropy solutions may not be unique. In this paper, we present numerical evidence that demonstrates that state of the art numerical schemes emph{may not} necessarily converge to an entropy solution of systems of conservation laws as the mesh is refined. Combining these two facts, we argue that entropy solutions may not be suitable as a solution framework for systems of conservation laws, particularly in several space dimensions. Furthermore, we propose a more general notion, that of emph{entropy measure valued solutions}, as an appropriate solution paradigm for systems of conservation laws. To this end, we present a detailed numerical procedure, which constructs stable approximations to entropy measure valued solutions and provide sufficient conditions that guarantee that these approximations converge to an entropy measure valued solution as the mesh is refined, thus providing a viable numerical framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. A large number of numerical experiments that illustrate the proposed schemes are presented and are utilized to examine several interesting properties of the computed entropy measure valued solutions.

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The notion of entropy solution has been widely used as a main tool to interpret the notion of solutions for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws in \(d\) dimensions. However, some recent results, e.g. \textit{C. De Lellis} and \textit{L. Székelyhidi jun.} [Ann. Math. (2) 170, No. 3, 1417--1436 (2009; Zbl 1350.35146)] and \textit{E. Chiodaroli} et al. [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 68, No. 7, 1157--1190 (2015; Zbl 1323.35137)], have proved that entropy solutions may not be unique. In this paper, the authors present some numerical schemes in several space dimensions in which there is no convergence to an entropy solution of systems of conservation laws as the mesh is refined. Consequently, the authors think that entropy solutions may not be suitable as a solution framework for systems of conservation laws and they support the notion of entropy measure-valued solutions, first proposed by DiPerna, as the appropriate solution paradigm for systems of conservation laws. For this reason, the authors present a detailed numerical procedure which constructs stable approximations to entropy measure-valued solutions, and provide sufficient conditions that guarantee that these approximations converge to an entropy measure-valued solution as the mesh is refined along with a viable numerical framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. Several numerical experiments which illustrate the proposed paradigm are presented and are used to examine some interesting properties of the computed entropy measure-valued solutions.

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