convergence to equilibrium for the relaxation approximations of conservation laws we study the cauchy problem for 2 2 semilinear and quasilinear hyperbolic systems with a singular relaxation term special comparison and compactness properties are established by assuming the subcharacteristic condition therefore we can prove the convergence to equilibrium of the solutions of these problems as the singular perturbation parameter tends to 0 this research was strongly motivated by the recent numerical investigations of s jin and z xin on the relaxation schemes for conservation laws 1996 john wiley sons inc

hyperbolic conservation laws with relaxation the effect of relaxation is important in many physical situations it is present in the kinetic theory of gases elasticity with memory gas flow with thermo non equilibrium water waves etc the governing equations often take the form of hyperbolic conservation laws with lower order terms in this article we present and analyze a simple model of hyperbolic conservation laws with relaxation effects dynamic subcharacteristics governing the propagation of disturbances over strong wave forms are identified stability criteria for diffusion waves expansion waves and traveling waves are found and justified nonlinearly time asymptotic expansion and the energy method are used in the analysis for dissipative waves the expansion is similar in spirit to the chapman enskog expansion in the kinetic theory for shock waves however a different approach is needed

second order boltzmann schemes for compressible euler equations in one and two space dimensions a class of second order numerical schemes for the compressible euler equations is described and their l 1 stability i e rho geqq 0 t geqq 0 is proved following van leer s approach the solution rho u sqrt t here is represented as piecewise linear functions the necessity of a slope limitation appears naturally in the derivation of the schemes but it can be less strict than the slope reconstructions usually used these schemes are written in terms of explicit flux splitting formula and are naturally multidimensional in space the upwinding is obtained through a very generalized notion of characteristics the kinetic one

global bv solutions to a p system with relaxation in this paper we study the global existence of bv solutions to a p system with a relaxation source term using the glimm s scheme the pressure p is given by a law with 1 by a suitable choice of the measure for the strength of the shock waves we show that the total strength of the waves and the total variation of the solutions are uniformly bounded with respect to the relaxation parameter furthermore when the relaxation parameter tends to zero we show that the sequence of bv solutions eventually converges to a weak solution to the equilibrium equation 2000 academic press

existence and stability of entropy solutions for the hyperbolic systems of isentropic gas dynamics in eulerian and lagrangian coordinates we prove the existence and compactness stability of entropy solutions for the hyperbolic systems of conservation laws corresponding to the isentropic gas dynamics where the pressure and density are related by a law for any 1 our results considerably extend and simplify the program initiated by diperna and provide a complete existence proof our methods are based on the compensated compactness and the kinetic formulation of systems of conservation laws 1996 john wiley sons inc

on the barenblatt model for non equilibrium two phase flow in porous media we prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions to a quasilinear goursat problem which was proposed by g i barenblatt to describe non equilibrium two phase fluid flow in permeable porous media when the equilibrium relaxation time tends to zero the solution is shown to converge to the entropy solution of the corresponding initial boundary value problem for the classical buckley leverett equation

entropy satisfying flux vector splittings and kinetic bgk models we establish forward and backward relations between entropy satisfying bgk relaxation models such as those introduced previously by the author and the first order flux vector splitting numerical methods for general systems of conservation laws classically to a kinetic bgk model that is compatible with some family of entropies we can associate an entropy flux vector splitting we prove that the converse is true any entropy flux vector splitting can be interpreted by a kinetic model and we obtain an explicit characterization of entropy satisfying flux vector splitting schemes we deduce a new proof of discrete entropy inequalities under a sharp cfl condition that generalizes the monotonicity criterion in the scalar case in particular this gives a stability condition for numerical kinetic methods with noncompact velocity support a new interpretation of general kinetic schemes is also provided via approximate riemann solvers we deduce the construction of finite velocity relaxation systems for gas dynamics and obtain a hllc scheme for which we are able to prove positiveness of density and internal energy and discrete entropy inequalities

a convex entropy for a hyperbolic system with relaxation abstract we explicitly construct a convex entropy function for a hyperbolic system with relaxation this entropy is defined in the sense of chen levermore and liu which resembles boltzman s h theorem for kinetic equations this construction follows the idea of suliciu s energy function for a rate type mixed hyperbolic elliptic system such an entropy will be useful in proving the entropy property of the relaxation schemes introduced by jin and xin for conservation laws

hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff relaxation terms and entropy we study the limiting behavior of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff relaxation terms reduced systems inviscid and viscous local conservation laws and weakly nonlinear limits are derived through asymptotic expansions an entropy condition is introduced for n n systems that ensures the hyperbolicity of the reduced inviscid system the resulting characteristic speeds are shown to be interlaced with those of the original system moreover the first correction to the reduced system is shown to be dissipative a partial converse is proved for 2 2 systems this structure is then applied to study the convergence to the reduced dynamics for the 2 2 case 1994 john wiley sons inc

discrete velocity models of the boltzmann equation a survey on the mathematical aspects of the theory discrete velocity models of the boltzmann equation are of considerable conceptual interest in the kinetic theory of gases and at the same time a fascinating mathematical subject the last decade has seen a lot of work on this subject which is reviewed here we put an emphasis on mathematical aspects in particular the global existence question qualitative properties of solutions explicit solutions and the fluid dynamical limit the mechanical background is discussed more concisely in part i numerous contributions concerning other questions are outlined we try to give a complete reference list up to and including 1985

the fluid dynamic limit of the broadwell model of the nonlinear boltzmann equation in the presence of shocks this paper studies the asymptotic equivalence of the broadwell model of the nonlinear boltzmann equation to its corresponding euler equation of compressible gas dynamics in the limit of small mean free path e it is shown that the fluid dynamical approximation is valid even if there are shocks in the fluid flow although there are thin shock layers in which the convergence does not hold more precisely by assuming that the fluid solution is piecewise smooth with a finite number of noninteracting shocks and suitably small oscillations we can show that there exist solutions to the broadwell equations such that the broadwell solutions converge to the fluid dynamical solutions away from the shocks at a rate of order e as the mean free path e goes to zero for the proof we first construct a formal solution for the broadwell equation by matching the truncated hilbert expansion and shock layer expansion then the existence of broadwell solutions and its convergence to the fluid dynamic solution is reduced to the stability analysis for the approximate solution we use an energy method which makes full use of the inner structure of time dependent shock profiles for the broadwell equations

a discrete kinetic approximation of entropy solutions to multidimensional scalar conservation laws abstract we present a new relaxation approximation to scalar conservation laws in several space variables by means of semilinear hyperbolic systems of equations with a finite number of velocities under a suitable multidimensional generalization of the whitham relaxation subcharacteristic condition we show the convergence of the approximated solutions to the unique entropy solution of the equilibrium cauchy problem

systems of ordinary differential equations which generate an order preserving flow a survey of results this article consists of a survey of results concerning the qualitative behavior of solutions of systems of ordinary differential equations which generate an order preserving flow we restrict our consideration to partial orderings on r n induced by any one of its orthants a flow preserves ordering if any two solutions x t and y t are ordered x t leqq y t for all t 0 whenever x 0 leqq y 0 many of the important results for such systems have only recently been obtained principally by m w hirsch who pointed out the tendency of their solutions to converge to equilibrium less well known are some global geometric constraints on the stable manifold of an equilibrium and the existence of heteroclinic orbits connecting ordered equilibria a particularly striking result for this class of systems is the easily computable necessary and sufficient condition for stability of an equilibrium one of our main goals is to show that by allowing partial orderings on r n generated by orthants

global existence of smooth solutions for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems with a convex entropy we consider the cauchy problem for a general one dimensional n n hyperbolic symmetrizable system of balance laws it is well known that in many physical examples for instance for the isentropic euler system with damping the dissipation due to the source term may prevent the shock formation at least for smooth and small initial data our main goal is to find a set of general and realistic sufficient conditions to guarantee the global existence of smooth solutions and possibly to investigate their asymptotic behavior for systems which are entropy dissipative a quite natural generalization of the kawashima condition for hyperbolic parabolic systems can be given in this paper we first propose a general framework for this kind of problem by using the so called entropy variables then we go on to prove some general statements about the global existence of smooth solutions under different sets of conditions in particular the present approach is suitable for dealing with most of the physical examples of systems with a relaxation extension our main tools will be some refined energy estimates and the use of a suitable version of the kawashima condition

convergence rates for relaxation schemes approximating conservation laws in this paper we prove a global error estimate for a relaxation scheme approximating scalar conservation laws to this end we decompose the error into a relaxation error and a discretization error including an initial error omega ep we obtain the rate of convergence of sqrt ep in l1 for the relaxation step the estimate here is independent of the type of nonlinearity in the discretization step a convergence rate of sqrt del x in l1 is obtained these rates are independent of the choice of initial error omega ep thereby we obtain the order 1 2 for the total error

finite volume relaxation schemes for multidimensional conservation laws we consider finite volume relaxation schemes for multidimensional scalar conservation laws these schemes are constructed by appropriate discretization of a relaxation system and it is shown to converge to the entropy solution of the conservation law with a rate of h 1 4 in l 0 t l loc 1 r d

zero relaxation and dissipation limits for hyperbolic conservation laws we are interested in hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with relaxation and dissipation particularly the zero relaxation limit such a limit is of interest in several physical situations including gas flow near thermo equilibrium kinetic theory with small mean free path and viscoelasticity with vanishing memory in this article we study hyperbolic systems of two conservation laws with relaxation for the stable case where the equilibrium speed is subcharacteristic with respect to the frozen speeds we illustrate for a model in viscoelasticity that no oscillation develops for the nonlinear system in the zero relaxation limit for the marginally stable case where the equilibrium speed may equal one of the frozen speeds we show for a model in phase transitions that no oscillation arises when the dissipation is present and goes to zero more slowly than the relaxation our analysis includes the construction of suitable entropy pairs to derive energy estimates we need such energy estimates not only for the compactness properties but also for the deviation from the equilibrium of the solutions for the relaxation systems the theory of compensated compactness is then applied to study the oscillation in the zero relaxation limit 1993 john wiley sons inc

a discrete bgk approximation for strongly degenerate parabolic problems with boundary conditions abstract we consider a class of bgk systems with a finite number of velocities depending on a positive relaxation parameter that approximate strongly degenerate hyperbolic parabolic equations with initial boundary conditions we prove a priori estimates for the solutions of the systems showing that these functions converge towards the entropy solutions of strongly degenerate problems when the relaxation parameter goes to zero

explicit diffusive kinetic schemes for nonlinear degenerate parabolic systems we design numerical schemes for nonlinear degenerate parabolic systems with possibly dominant convection these schemes are based on discrete bgk models where both characteristic velocities and the source term depend singularly on the relaxation parameter general stability conditions are derived and convergence is proved to the entropy solutions for scalar equations

kinetic formulation of the isentropic gas dynamics and p systems we consider the 2 x 2 hyperbolic system of isentropic gas dynamics in both eulerian or lagrangian variables also called the p system we show that they can be reformulated as a kinetic equation using an additional kinetic variable such a formulation was first obtained by the authors in the case of multidimensio nal scalar conservation laws a new phenomenon occurs here namely that the advection velocity is now a combination of the macroscopic and kinetic velocities various applications are given we recover the invariant regions deduce new l estimates using moments lemma and prove l w stability for 7 3

global existence to the bgk model of boltzmann equation abstract we present an existence and a stability proof for solutions to the bgk model of boltzmann equation f v x f f m f t 0 x r n v r n m f p 2 t n 2 exp v u 2 2t p pu p u 2 pt 1 x r n 1 v v 2 f t x v dv it relies on the strong compactness of u t and on a new estimate on the third moment of v dv we also prove the entropy relation for 1

numerical passage from kinetic to fluid equations a numerical way to pass from the bhatnagar gross krook model of the boltzmann equation to compressible euler equations is presented in order to do so a stable discretization of the kinetic equati

resolution d equations d evolution quasilineaires en dimension n d espace a l aide d equations lineaires en dimension n 1 on montre que l on peut calculer les solutions de l equation d evolution quasi lineaire dans r n d t u div b u a u 0 u x t r x r n t 0 et en particulier de l equation d ordre 1 d t u div b u 0 u x t r x r n t 0 a l aide d une equation d evolution lineaire dans r n r

a kinetic construction of global solutions of first order quasilinear equations on considere le probleme de cauchy pour des equations quasilineaires d ordre 1 de type conservation dans la region t 0 u t i 1 u a i u x i 0 u x o u o x ou x x 1 x n u u x t et a i i 1 n sont des fonctions continument differentiables a valeurs reelles d une seule variable reelle

local radial basis function based differential quadrature method and its application to solve two dimensional incompressible navier stokes equations local radial basis function based differential quadrature method is presented in detail in this paper the method is a natural mesh free approach like the conventional differential quadrature dq method it discretizes any derivative at a knot by a weighted linear sum of functional values at its neighbouring knots which may be distributed randomly however different from the conventional dq method the weighting coefficients in present method are determined by taking the radial basis functions rbfs instead of high order polynomials as the test functions the method works in a similar fashion as conventional finite difference schemes but with truly mesh free property in this paper we mainly concentrate on the multiquadric rbfs since they have exponential convergence the effects of shape parameter c on the accuracy of numerical solution of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations are studied and how the value of optimal c varies with the number of local support knots is also numerically demonstrated the proposed method is validated by its application to the simulation of natural convection in a square cavity excellent numerical results are obtained on an irregular knot distribution

l1nonlinear stability of traveling waves for a hyperbolic system with relaxation where x t r r the unknowns u v belong to r the function f f u is in c r and 0 is a fixed constant relaxation systems often arise in many physical situations let us recall for example gases not in thermodynamic equilibrium vk kinetic theory ce cip pi chromatography raa river flows traffic flows and more general waves wh more recently the study of a special class of hyperbolic systems with relaxation was developed in view of the numerical approximation of discontinuous solutions of conservation laws jx an the 2 2 relaxation hyperbolic systems of conservation laws were first analyzed by liu li2 who justified some nonlinear stability criteria for diffusion waves expansion waves and traveling waves article no 0180

a kinetic equation with kinetic entropy functions for scalar conservation laws we construct a nonlinear kinetic equation and prove that it is welladapted to describe general multidimensional scalar conservation laws in particular we prove that it is well posed uniformly in e the microscopic scale we also show that the proposed kinetic equation is equipped with a family of kinetic entropy functions analogous to boltzmann s microscopich function such that they recover krushkov type entropy inequality on the macroscopic scale finally we prove by both bv compactness arguments in the multidimensional case and by compensated compactness arguments in the one dimensional case that the local density of kinetic particles admits a continuum limit as it converges strongly with e 0 to the unique entropy solution of the corresponding conservation law

boltzmann type schemes for gas dynamics and the entropy property let h be a convex function a boltzmann equation is built following the b g k model for which h is an entropy in the fluid limit the compressible euler equations are obtained with a convex entropy naturally associated to h the motivation is to define numerical boltzmann schemes with finite speed of propagation corresponding to an equilibrium density function with bounded support the classical scheme obtained with h f f log f is based on the equilibrium density function exp v 2 2 which has infinite support

materials with internal variables and relaxation to conservation laws the theory of materials with internal state variables of coleman gurtin cg provides a natural framework to investigate the structure of relaxation approximations of conservation laws from the viewpoint of continuum thermomechanics after reviewing the requirements imposed on constitutive theories by the principle of consistency with the clausius duhem inequality we pursue two specific theories pertaining to stress relaxation and relaxation of internal energy they each lead to a relaxation framework for the theory of thermoelastic non conductors of heat equipped with globally defined entropy functions for the associated relaxation process next we consider a semilinear model problem of stress relaxation we discuss uniform stability and compactness for solutions of the relaxation system in the zero relaxation limit and establish convergence to the system of isothermal elastodynamics by using compensated compactness finally we prove a strong dissipation estimate for the relaxation approximations proposed in jin xin jx when the limit system is equipped with a strictly convex entropy