Convergence rates to nonlinear diffusion waves for weak entropy solutions to p-system with damping

摘要

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior ofweak entropy solutions to the Cauchy problem of the so-called p-system with damping. The convergence rates to nonlinear diffusion waves for weak entropy solutions are obtained in L∞-norm or L2-norm. These convergence rates are the same to the decay rates of smooth solution obtained by Nishihara. They are proved by using the vanishing viscosity method and the elementary L2-energy method.