We justify a Chapman-Enskog expansion for discontinuous solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws containing shock waves with small strength. Precisely, we establish pointwise uniform estimates for the difference between the traveling waves of a relaxation model and the traveling waves of the corresponding diffusive equations determined by a Chapman-Enskog expansion procedure to first- or second-order.
@article{hal-00003736,
author = {Bedjaoui, Nabil and Klingenberg, Christian and LeFloch, Philippe G.},
title = {On the Validity of Chapman-Enskog expansion for shock waves with small strength},
journal = {HAL},
volume = {2004},
number = {0},
year = {2004},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/hal-00003736}
}
Bedjaoui, Nabil; Klingenberg, Christian; LeFloch, Philippe G. On the Validity of Chapman-Enskog expansion for shock waves with small strength. HAL, Tome 2004 (2004) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/hal-00003736/