Vanishing viscosity approximation for linear transport equations on finite starshaped networks

Abstract: In this paper we study linear parabolic equations on a finite oriented starshaped 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 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 and satisfies suitable transmission conditions at the inner node, which are determined by the parameters appearing in the parabolic transmission conditions.