We study the Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic n × n system of conservation laws in one space dimension

We propose a class of finite element schemes for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws that are based on finite element discretizations of appropriate relaxation models. We consider both semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element schemes and show that the schemes are stable and, when the compensated compactness theory is applicable, do converge to a weak solution of the hyperbolic system....

For hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in one space dimension with a mathematical entropy, we define the notion of entropy velocity. Then we give sufficient conditions for such a system to be covariant under the action of a group of space-time transformations. These conditions naturally introduce a representation of the group in the space of states. We construct such hyperbolic system from...

Viscous conservation laws are the basic models for the dissipative phenomena. We aim at a systematic presentation of the basic ideas for the quantitative study of the nonlinear waves for viscous conservation laws. The present paper concentrates on the scalar laws; an upcoming Part II will deal with the systems. The basic ideas for scalar viscous conservation laws originated from two sources: th...

Numerical Solution of hyperbolic conservation laws is important in computational fluid dynamics. In this paper, we present a new numerical method to solve the hyperbolic conservation laws, which is constructed by using the derivative of the cubic B-spline quasi-interpolation to approximate the spatial derivative of the dependent variable and first order forward difference to approximate the tim...

In this paper we consider numerical approximations of hyperbolic conservation laws in the one-dimensional scalar case, by studying Godunov and van Leer’s methods. Before to present the numerical treatment of hyperbolic conservation laws, a theoretical introduction is given together with the definition of the Riemann problem. Next the numerical schemes are discussed. We also present numerical ex...

We study high order convergence of vanishing viscosity approximation to scalar hyperbolic conservation laws in one space dimension. We prove that, under suitable assumptions, in the region where the solution is smooth, the viscous solution admits an expansion in powers of the viscosity parameter ε. This allows an extrapolation procedure that yields high order approximation to the non-viscous li...

Global weak solutions of bounded variation to systems of balance laws with non-local source are constructed by the method of vanishing viscosity. Suitable dissipativeness assumptions are imposed on the source terms to assure convergence of the method. Under these hypotheses, the total variation remains uniformly bounded and integrable in time, the vanishing viscosity solutions are uniformly sta...