Entropy and renormalized solutions to the general nonlinear elliptic equations in Musielak–Orlicz spaces

In this paper we mainly prove the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions and the uniqueness of renormalized solutions to the general nonlinear elliptic equations in Musielak-Orlicz spaces. Moreover, we also obtain the equivalence of entropy solutions and renormalized solutions in the present conditions.     

A new entropy functional for a scalar conservation law

In this paper we introduce a new entropy functional for a scalar convex conservation law that generalizes the traditional concept of entropy of the second law of thermodynamics. The generalization has two aspects: The new entropy functional is defined not for one but for two solutions. It is defined in terms of the L₁ distance between the two solutions as well as the variations of each separate solution. In addition, it is decreasing in time even when the solutions contain no shocks and is therefore stronger than the traditional entropy even in the case when one of the solutions is zero. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Regularity of solutions to scalar conservation laws with a force

We prove regularity estimates for entropy solutions to scalar conservation laws with a force. Based on the kinetic form of a scalar conservation law, a new decomposition of entropy solutions is introduced, by means of a decomposition in the velocity variable, adapted to the non-degeneracy properties of the flux function. This allows a finer control of the degeneracy behavior of the flux. In addition, this decomposition allows to make use of the fact that the entropy dissipation measure has locally finite singular moments. Based on these observations, improved regularity estimates for entropy solutions to (forced) scalar conservation laws are obtained.     

Existence of Viscosity Solutions to a System of Hyperbolic Balance Laws

In this paper, the existence of viscous solutions of a hyperbolic equilibrium law system derived from the nonlinear entropy moment closure of a dynamic equation is established. In addition, by using the natural entropy of the system, some higher order estimates of some viscosity solutions are obtained.     

Construction of Approximate Entropy Measure-Valued Solutions for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws

Entropy solutions have been widely accepted as the suitable solution framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. However, recent results in De Lellis and Székelyhidi Jr (Ann Math 170(3):1417–1436, 2009) and Chiodaroli et al. (2013) have demonstrated that entropy solutions may not be unique. In this paper, we present numerical evidence that state-of-the-art numerical schemes need not converge to an entropy solution of systems of conservation laws as the mesh is refined. Combining these two facts, we argue that entropy solutions may not be suitable as a solution framework for systems of conservation laws, particularly in several space dimensions. We advocate entropy measure-valued solutions, first proposed by DiPerna, as the appropriate solution paradigm for systems of conservation laws. To this end, we present a detailed numerical procedure which constructs stable approximations to entropy measure-valued solutions, and provide sufficient conditions that guarantee that these approximations converge to an entropy measure-valued solution as the mesh is refined, thus providing a viable numerical framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. A large number of numerical experiments that illustrate the proposed paradigm are presented and are utilized to examine several interesting properties of the computed entropy measure-valued solutions.     

Weak solutions to isothermal hydrodynamic model for semiconductor devices

In this paper, the Cauchy problem of the isothermal hydrodynamic model for semiconductor devices is investigated. The existence of global weak entropy solutions with large initial data is obtained by using a modified fractional step Lax-Friedrichs scheme and the theory of compensated compactness. As a byproduct, the existence of entropy solutions to the Cauchy problem of the isentropic hydrodynamic model for a semiconductor with infinite mass is also proved.     

Convergence of Godunov type methods for a conservation law with a spatially varying discontinuous flux function

We deal with single conservation laws with a spatially varying and possibly discontinuous coefficient. This equation includes as a special case single conservation laws with conservative and possibly singular source terms. We extend the framework of optimal entropy solutions for these classes of equations based on a two-step approach. In the first step, an interface connection vector is used to define infinite classes of entropy solutions. We show that each of these classes of solutions is stable in . This allows for the possibility of choosing one of these classes of solutions based on the physics of the problem. In the second step, we define optimal entropy solutions based on the solution of a certain optimization problem at the discontinuities of the coefficient. This method leads to optimal entropy solutions that are consistent with physically observed solutions in two-phase flows in heterogeneous porous media. Another central aim of this paper is to develop suitable numerical schemes for these equations. We develop and analyze a set of Godunov type finite volume methods that are based on exact solutions of the corresponding Riemann problem. Numerical experiments are shown comparing the performance of these schemes on a set of test problems.

     

Global stability of solutions with discontinuous initial data containing vacuum states for the isentropic Euler equations

The global stability of Lipschitz continuous solutions with discontinuous initial data is established in a broad class of entropy solutions in L^￥L^\infty containing vacuum states. In particular, the uniqueness of Lipschitz solutions with discontinuous initial data is obtained in the broad class of entropy solutions in L^￥L^\infty .     

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.     

Entropy stable shock capturing space–time discontinuous Galerkin schemes for systems of conservation laws

We present a streamline diffusion shock capturing spacetime discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to approximate nonlinear systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. The degrees of freedom are in terms of the entropy variables and the numerical flux functions are the entropy stable finite volume fluxes. We show entropy stability of the (formally) arbitrarily high order accurate method for a general system of conservation laws. Furthermore, we prove that the approximate solutions converge to the entropy measure valued solutions for nonlinear systems of conservation laws. Convergence to entropy solutions for scalar conservation laws and for linear symmetrizable systems is also shown. Numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the robustness of the proposed schemes.     

On the entropy conditions for some flux limited diffusion equations

In this paper we give a characterization of the notion of entropy solutions of some flux limited diffusion equations for which we can prove that the solution is a function of bounded variation in space and time. This includes the case of the so-called relativistic heat equation and some generalizations. For them we prove that the jump set consists of fronts that propagate at the speed given by Rankine-Hugoniot condition and we give on it a geometric characterization of the entropy conditions. Since entropy solutions are functions of bounded variation in space once the initial condition is, to complete the program we study the time regularity of solutions of the relativistic heat equation under some conditions on the initial datum. An analogous result holds for some other related equations without additional assumptions on the initial condition.     

Stochastic conservation laws: Weak-in-time formulation and strong entropy condition

This article is an attempt to complement some recent developments on conservation laws with stochastic forcing. In a pioneering development, Feng and Nualart [8] have developed the entropy solution theory for such problems and the presence of stochastic forcing necessitates introduction of strong entropy condition. However, the authors' formulation of entropy inequalities are weak-in-space but strong-in-time. In the absence of a priori path continuity for the solutions, we take a critical outlook towards this formulation and offer an entropy formulation which is weak-in-time and weak-in-space.     

一类强退化拟线性抛物方程的弱解

In this paper, we show the existence of the renormalized solutions and the entropy solutions of a class of strongly degenerate quasilinear parabolic equations.     

Solutions for a generalized fractional anomalous diffusion equation

In this paper, we investigate the solutions for a generalized fractional diffusion equation that extends some known diffusion equations by taking a spatial time-dependent diffusion coefficient and an external force into account, which subjects to the natural boundaries and the generic initial condition. We obtain explicit analytical expressions for the probability distribution and study the relation between our solutions and those obtained within the maximum entropy principle by using the Tsallis entropy.     

Equivalence of Entropy and Renormalized Solutions of Anisotropic Elliptic Problem in Unbounded Domains with Measure Data

We consider a class of anisotropic elliptic equations of second order with variable exponents of non-linearity where a special Radon measure is used as the right-hand side. We establish uniqueness of entropy and renormalized solutions of the Dirichlet problem in anisotropic Sobolev spaces with variable exponents of non-linearity for arbitrary domains and certain other their properties. In addition, we prove the equivalence of entropy and renormalized solutions of the problem under consideration.     

Large time behavior of Euler-Poisson system for semiconductor

In this note,we present a framework for the large time behavior of general uniformly bounded weak entropy solutions to the Cauchy problem of Euler-Poisson system of semiconductor devices.It is shown that the solutions converges to the stationary solutions exponentially in time.No smallness and regularity conditions are assumed.     

BD entropy and Bernis–Friedman entropy

In this note, we propose in the full generality a link between the BD entropy introduced by D. Bresch and B. Desjardins for the viscous shallow-water equations and the Bernis–Friedman (called BF) dissipative entropy introduced to study the lubrication equations. Different dissipative entropies are obtained playing with the drag terms on the viscous shallow-water equations. It helps for instance to prove the global existence of nonnegative weak solutions to the lubrication equations starting from the global existence of nonnegative weak solutions to appropriate viscous shallow-water equations.     

Entropy Dissipation Methods for Degenerate ParabolicProblems and Generalized Sobolev Inequalities

We analyse the large-time asymptotics of quasilinear (possibly) degenerate parabolic systems in three cases: 1) scalar problems with confinement by a uniformly convex potential, 2) unconfined scalar equations and 3) unconfined systems. In particular we are interested in the rate of decay to equilibrium or self-similar solutions. The main analytical tool is based on the analysis of the entropy dissipation. In the scalar case this is done by proving decay of the entropy dissipation rate and bootstrapping back to show convergence of the relative entropy to zero. As by-product, this approach gives generalized Sobolev-inequalities, which interpolate between the Gross logarithmic Sobolev inequality and the classical Sobolev inequality. The time decay of the solutions of the degenerate systems is analyzed by means of a generalisation of the Nash inequality. Porous media, fast diffusion, p-Laplace and energy transport systems are included in the considered class of problems. A generalized Csiszár–Kullback inequality allows for an estimation of the decay to equilibrium in terms of the relative entropy.     

GLOBAL STABILITY OF SOLUTIONS WITH DISCONTINUOUS INITIAL DATA CONTAINING VACUUM STATES FOR THE RELATIVISTIC EULER EQUATIONS

The global stability of Lipschitz continuous solutions with discontinuous initial data for the relativistic Euler equations is established in a broad class of entropy solutions in L∞containing vacuum states. As a corollary, the uniqueness of Lipschitz solutions with discontinuous initial data is obtained in the broad class of entropy solutions in     

Applications of the Kinetic Formulation for Scalar Conservation Laws with a Zero-Flux Type Boundary Condition

The authors are concerned with a zero-flux type initial boundary value problem for scalar conservation laws.Firstly,a kinetic formulation of entropy solutions is established.Secondly,by using the kinet...