Explicit Hopf-Lax type formulas for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and conservation laws with discontinuous coefficients

We deal with a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a Hamiltonian that is discontinuous in the space variable. This is closely related to a conservation law with discontinuous flux. Recently, an entropy framework for single conservation laws with discontinuous flux has been developed which is based on the existence of infinitely many stable semigroups of entropy solutions based on an interface connection. In this paper, we characterize these infinite classes of solutions in terms of explicit Hopf-Lax type formulas which are obtained from the viscosity solutions of the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi equation with discontinuous Hamiltonian. This also allows us to extend the framework of infinitely many classes of solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and obtain an alternative representation of the entropy solutions for the conservation law. We have considered the case where both the Hamiltonians are convex (concave). Furthermore, we also deal with the less explored case of sign changing coefficients in which one of the Hamiltonians is convex and the other concave. In fact in convex-concave case we cannot expect always an existence of a solution satisfying Rankine-Hugoniot condition across the interface. Therefore the concept of generalised Rankine-Hugoniot condition is introduced and prove existence and uniqueness.     

IBVPs for scalar conservation laws with time discontinuous fluxes

The initial boundary value problem for a class of scalar nonautonomous conservation laws in 1 space dimension is proved to be well posed and stable with respect to variations in the flux. Targeting applications to traffic, the regularity assumptions on the flow are extended to a merely dependence on time. These results ensure, for instance, the well‐posedness of a class of vehicular traffic models with time‐dependent speed limits. A traffic management problem is then shown to admit an optimal solution.     

On the existence of Feller semigroups with discontinuous coefficients II

This paper is devoted to the functional analytic approach to the problem of existence of Markov processes with Dirichlet boundary condition, oblique derivative boundary condition and first-order Wentzell boundary condition for second-order, uniformly elliptic differential operators with discontinuous coefficients. More precisely, we construct Feller semigroups associated with absorption, reflection, drift and sticking phenomena at the boundary. The approach here is distinguished by the extensive use of the ideas and techniques characteristic of the recent developments in the Calderon- Zygmund theory of singular integral operators with non-smooth kernels.     

A relaxation scheme for conservation laws with a discontinuous coefficient

We study a relaxation scheme of the Jin and Xin type for conservation laws with a flux function that depends discontinuously on the spatial location through a coefficient . If , we show that the relaxation scheme produces a sequence of approximate solutions that converge to a weak solution. The Murat-Tartar compensated compactness method is used to establish convergence. We present numerical experiments with the relaxation scheme, and comparisons are made with a front tracking scheme based on an exact Riemann solver.     

Scalar conservation laws with fractional stochastic forcing: Existence,uniqueness and invariant measure

We study a fractional stochastic perturbation of a first-order hyperbolic equation of nonlinear type. The existence and uniqueness of the solution are investigated via a Lax–Ole?nik formula. To construct the invariant measure we use two main ingredients. The first one is the notion of a generalized characteristic in the sense of Dafermos. The second one is the fact that the oscillations of the fractional Brownian motion are arbitrarily small for an infinite number of intervals of arbitrary length.     

Second order scheme for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux

Burger, Karlsen, Torres and Towers in [9] proposed a flux TVD (FTVD) second order scheme with Engquist–Osher flux, by using a new nonlocal limiter algorithm for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux modeling clarifier thickener units. In this work we show that their idea can be used to construct FTVD second order scheme for general fluxes like Godunov, Engquist–Osher, Lax–Friedrich, … satisfying (A, B)-interface entropy condition for a scalar conservation law with discontinuous flux with proper modification at the interface. Also corresponding convergence analysis is shown. We show further from numerical experiments that solutions obtained from these schemes are comparable with the second order schemes obtained from the minimod limiter.     

Duality solutions for pressureless gases,monotone scalar conservation laws,and uniqueness

We introduce for the system of pressureless gases a new notion of solution, which consist in interpreting the system as two nonlinearly coupled linear equations. We prove In this setting existence of solutions for the Cauchy Problem, as well as uniqueness under optimal conditions on initlaffata. The proofs rely on the detailed study of the relations between pressureless gases, tie dynamics of sticky particles and nonlinear scalar conservation laws with monotone initial data. We prove for the latter problem that monotonicit implies uniqueness. and a generalization of Oleinik's entropy condition     

Numerical approximations of one-dimensional linear conservation equations with discontinuous coefficients

Conservative linear equations arise in many areas of application, including continuum mechanics or high-frequency geometrical optics approximations. This kind of equation admits most of the time solutions which are only bounded measures in the space variable known as duality solutions. In this paper, we study the convergence of a class of finite-difference numerical schemes and introduce an appropriate concept of consistency with the continuous problem. Some basic examples including computational results are also supplied.

     

Hyperbolic conservation laws with discontinuous fluxes and hydrodynamic limit for particle systems

We study the following class of scalar hyperbolic conservation laws with discontinuous fluxes:

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On existence of solutions of multivalued stochastic differential equations with discontinuous coefficients

The subject of the paper is to find existence conditions of weak solutions to multivalued stochastic differential equations with discontinuous coefficients. First we prove that a non-exploding solution exists when the drift coefficient b satisfies linear growth and the diffusion coefficient σ is uniformly elliptic. On this basis, we continue to obtain a solution (up to the explosion time) in the weak sense under certain local integrability, improving the result of Rozkosz and S?omiński.     

Existence and nonexistence of TV bounds for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux

For the scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux, an infinite family of (A, B)‐interface entropies are introduced and each one of them is shown to form an L¹‐contraction semigroup (see [2]). One of the main unsettled questions concerning conservation law with discontinuous flux is boundedness of total variation of the solution. Away from the interface, boundedness of total variation of the solution has been proved in a recent paper [6]. In this paper, we discuss this particular issue in detail and produce a counterexample to show that the solution, in general, has unbounded total variation near the interface. In fact, this example illustrates that smallness of the BV norm of the initial data is immaterial. We hereby settle the question of determining for which of the aforementioned (A, B) pairs the solution will have bounded total variation in the case of strictly convex fluxes. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Some existence results for conservation laws with source‐term

We prove some new results concerning the existence and asymptotic behaviour of entropy solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws containing non‐smooth source‐terms. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymptotic behavior and uniqueness for an ultrahyperbolic equation with variable coefficients

This paper describes the asymptotic behavior of solutions of a class of semilinear ultrahyperbolic equations with variable coefficients. One consequence of the general analysis is a uniqueness theorem for a mixed boundary-value problem. Another demonstrates unique continuation at infinity. These results extend previous work by M. H. Protter, [Asymptotic decay for ultrahyperbolic operators, in “Contributions to Analysis” (Lars Ahlfors et al., Eds.), Academic Press, New York, 1974], and A. C. Murray and M. M. Protter, [Indiana U. Math. J.24 (1974), 115–130], on a more restricted class of equations.