We consider initial boundary-value problems for nonlinear systems of conservation laws in one space variable. It is known that in general different viscous mechanisms yield different solutions in the zero-viscosity limit. Here we focus on the most technically demanding case, known as boundary characteristic case, which occurs when one of the characteristic velocities of the system vanishes. We work in small total variation regimes and assume that every characteristic field is either genuinely nonlinear or linearly degenerate. We establish existence of admissible solutions satisfying a boundary condition consistent with the vanishing viscosity approximation given by a large class of physical (that is, mixed hyperbolic-parabolic) systems. In particular, our results apply to the zero-viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes and viscous MHD equations, written in both Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates. Our analysis relies on a fine boundary layers analysis and is based on the introduction of a new wave front-tracking algorithm. From the technical viewpoint, the most innovative elements are i) a new class of interaction estimates for boundary layers and boundary characteristic wave fronts hitting the boundary, which yields the introduction of a new Glimm-type functional; ii) a detailed analysis of the behavior of the wave front-tracking algorithm close to the boundary, which in turn yields relevant information on the limit.
We consider a vanishing viscosity sequence of weak solutions of the three-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations on a bounded domain. In a seminal paper [25] Kato showed that for sufficiently regular solutions, the vanishing viscosity limit is equivalent to having vanishing viscous dissipation in a boundary layer of width proportional to the viscosity. We prove that Kato's criterion holds for Hölder continuous solutions with the regularity index arbitrarily close to the Onsager's critical exponent through a new boundary layer foliation and a global mollification.
In this paper, we propose a time-dependent viscous system and by using the vanishing viscosity method we show the existence of %delta shock solution solutions for the Riemann problem to a particular $2 \times 2$ system of conservation laws with linear damping.
We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of viscous Burgers-Vlasov equations for one dimensional kinetic model about interactions between a viscous fluid and dispersed particles by using compensated compactness technique and the evolution of level sets arguments. The limit we obtained is exactly a finite-energy weak solution to the inviscid equations.
We study the vanishing viscosity limit for the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in terms of the relative vorticity in the setting of axisymmetric velocity fields without swirl. We show that the weak convergence of relative vorticity to a renormalized solution of the Euler equations, established by Nobili and Seis, can be upgraded to strong convergence.
In this paper, we investigate the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate, density-dependent, viscosity coefficient driven by multiplicative stochastic noise. We consider three-dimensional periodic domain and prove that the family of weak martingale solutions is sequentially compact.
The current paper establishes the global well-posedness issue for the full viscous MHD equations in the axisymmetric setting. Global solutions are obtained in critical Besov spaces uniformly to the viscosity when the resistivity is fixed in the spirit of \cite{AKH,Hassainia,hz0}. Furthermore, strong convergence in the resolution spaces with a rate of convergence is also studied.
We show strong convergence of the vorticities in the vanishing viscosity limit for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the two-dimensional torus, assuming only that the initial vorticity of the limiting Euler equations is in $L^p$ for some $p>1$. This substantially extends a recent result of Constantin, Drivas and Elgindi, who proved strong convergence in the case $p=\infty$. Our proof, which relies on the classical renormalization theory of DiPerna-Lions, is surprisingly simple.
We consider the free boundary problem of compressible isentropic neo-Hookean viscoelastic fluid equations with surface tension. Under the physical kinetic and dynamic conditions proposed on the free boundary, we investigate regularities of classical solutions to viscoelastic fluid equations in Sobolev spaces which are uniform in viscosity and justify the corresponding vanishing viscosity limits. The key ingredient of our proof is that the deformation gradient tensor in Lagrangian coordinates can be represented as a parameter in terms of flow map so that the inherent structure of the elastic te…
We study the vanishing viscosity limit of a nonlinear diffusion equation describing chemical reaction interface or the spatial segregation interface of competing species, where the diffusion rate for the negative part of the solution converges to zero. As in the standard one phase Stefan problem, we prove that the positive part of the solution converges uniformly to the solution of a generalized one phase Stefan problem. This information is then employed to determine the limiting equation for the negative part, which is an ordinary differential equation.
We consider the Euler system of gas dynamics endowed with the incomplete equation of state relating the internal energy to the mass density and the pressure. We show that any sufficiently smooth solution can be recovered as a vanishing viscosity - heat conductivity limit of the Navier--Stokes--Fourier system with a properly defined temperature. The result is unconditional in the case of the Navier type (slip) boundary conditions and extends to the no-slip condition for the velocity under some extra hypotheses of Kato's type concerning the behavior of the fluid in the boundary layer.