Convergence rate of the vanishing viscosity limit for the Hunter-Saxton equation in the half space

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions to an initial boundary value problem of the Hunter-Saxton equation in the half space when the viscosity tends to zero. By means of the asymptotic analysis with multiple scales, we first formally derive the equations for boundary layer profiles. Next, we study the well-posedness of the equations for the boundary layer profiles by using the compactness argu-ment. Moreover, we construct an accurate approximate solution and use the energy method to obtain the convergence results of the vanishing viscosity limit.(c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.