Vanishing viscosity approximation for linear transport equations on finite star-shaped networks

Abstract

In this paper, we study linear parabolic equations on a finite oriented star-shaped network; the equations are coupled by transmission conditions set at the inner node, which do not impose continuity on the unknown. We consider this problem as a parabolic approximation of a set of the first-order linear transport equations on the network, and we prove that when the diffusion coefficient vanishes, the family of solutions converges to the unique solution to the first-order equations satisfying suitable transmission conditions at the inner node, which are determined by the parameters appearing in the parabolic transmission conditions.