UNIFORM ASYMPTOTIC AND CONVERGENCE ESTIMATES FOR THE JIN XIN MODEL UNDER THE DIFFUSION SCALING

We obtain sharp decay estimates in time in the context of Sobolev spaces for smooth solutions to the one-dimensional Jin Xin model under the diffusion scaling, which are uniform with respect to the singular parameter of the scaling. This provides the convergence to the limit nonlinear parabolic equation both for large time and for the vanishing singular parameter. The analysis is performed by means of two main ingredients. First, a crucial change of variables highlights the dissipative property of the Jin Xin system and allows us to observe a faster decay of the dissipative variable with respect to the conservative one, which is essential in order to close the estimates. Next, the analysis relies on a deep investigation of the Green function of the linearized Jin Xin model, depending on the singular parameter, combined with the Duhamel formula in order to handle the nonlinear terms.