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Diffusive limits of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with variable coefficients

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We consider the initial-boundary value problem for a 2-speed system of first-order nonhomogeneous semilinear hyperbolic equations whose leading terms have a small positive parameter. Using energy estimates and a compactness lemma, we show that the diffusion limit of the sum of the solutions of the hyperbolic system, as the parameter tends to zero, verifies the nonlinear parabolic equation of the p-Laplacian type.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Hironari Miyoshi & Masayoshi Tsutsumi

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Miyoshi, H., Tsutsumi, M. Diffusive limits of nonlinear hyperbolic systems with variable coefficients. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 28, 1583–1599 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-016-0497-y

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