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Convergence of the viscosity solutions for weakly strictly hyperbolic conservation laws*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Zhu Changjiang
Affiliation:
Wuhan Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 71007, Wuhan 430071, P.R., China

Synopsis

This paper is an extension of papers [14–16]. Using the theory of compensated compactness, we establish the convergence of the uniformly bounded approximate solution sequence for a class of ‘weakly strictly hyperbolic’ conservation laws.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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