A theory of L ^1-dissipative solvers for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux

DOI10.1007/S00205-010-0389-4MaRDI QIDQ715295zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Boris Andreianov, Kenneth H. Karlsen, N. H. Risebro

Publication date 5 November 2012

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4104

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^1\) contractive semigroups entropy conditions new uniqueness results vanishing viscosity method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Semigroups of nonlinear operators (47H20)

Abstract: We propose a general framework for the study of

L^{1}

contractive semigroups of solutions to conservation laws with discontinuous flux. Developing the ideas of a number of preceding works we claim that the whole admissibility issue is reduced to the selection of a family of "elementary solutions", which are certain piecewise constant stationary weak solutions. We refer to such a family as a "germ". It is well known that (CL) admits many different

L^{1}

contractive semigroups, some of which reflects different physical applications. We revisit a number of the existing admissibility (or entropy) conditions and identify the germs that underly these conditions. We devote specific attention to the anishing viscosity" germ, which is a way to express the "

G a m m a

-condition" of Diehl. For any given germ, we formulate "germ-based" admissibility conditions in the form of a trace condition on the flux discontinuity line

x = 0

(in the spirit of Vol'pert) and in the form of a family of global entropy inequalities (following Kruzhkov and Carrillo). We characterize those germs that lead to the

L^{1}

-contraction property for the associated admissible solutions. Our approach offers a streamlined and unifying perspective on many of the known entropy conditions, making it possible to recover earlier uniqueness results under weaker conditions than before, and to provide new results for other less studied problems. Several strategies for proving the existence of admissible solutions are discussed, and existence results are given for fluxes satisfying some additional conditions. These are based on convergence results either for the vanishing viscosity method (with standard viscosity or with specific viscosities "adapted" to the choice of a germ), or for specific germ-adapted finite volume schemes.

Review text

The authors study \(L^1\) contractive semigroups of solutions to conservation laws \(u_t+f(x,u)_x=0\) with discontinuous flux \(f(x,u)=f^l(u)\) for \(x<0\), \(f(x,u)=f^r(u)\) for \(x>0\). It is known that such conservation laws usually admit many different \(L^1\) contractive semigroups, and additional admissibility (entropy) criteria are necessary to extract unique solutions. The authors propose a general framework to these criteria, based on selection of a special family of piecewise constant weak solutions, which is called germ. For any given germ the authors formulate the corresponding ``germ-based admissibility criteria in the form of interface conditions on the discontinuity line \(x=0\). They characterize the germs that lead to \(L^1\) contractive semigroups. The suggested unified approach allows to provide new uniqueness results for conservation laws with discontinuous flux as well as to recover the known results under the weaker assumptions. The existence of admissible solutions is also discussed and is established for fluxes satisfying some additional conditions.

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