49 research outputs found
An Overview on Some Results Concerning the Transport Equation and its Applications to Conservation Laws
We provide an informal overview on the theory of transport equations with non
smooth velocity fields, and on some applications of this theory to the
well-posedness of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.Comment: 12 page
A connection between viscous profiles and singular ODEs
We deal with the viscous profiles for a class of mixed hyperbolic-parabolic
systems. We focus, in particular, on the case of the compressible Navier Stokes
equation in one space variable written in Eulerian coordinates. We describe the
link between these profiles and a singular ordinary differential equation in
the form Here and the function F
takes values into and is smooth. The real valued function z is as well
regular: the equation is singular in the sense that z (V) can attain the value
0.Comment: 6 pages, minor change
On the singular local limit for conservation laws with nonlocal fluxes
We give an answer to a question posed in [P. Amorim, R. Colombo, and A.
Teixeira, ESAIM Math. Model. Numerics. Anal. 2015], which can be loosely
speaking formulated as follows. Consider a family of continuity equations where
the velocity depends on the solution via the convolution by a regular kernel.
In the singular limit where the convolution kernel is replaced by a Dirac
delta, one formally recovers a conservation law: can we rigorously justify this
formal limit? We exhibit counterexamples showing that, despite numerical
evidence suggesting a positive answer, one in general does not have convergence
of the solutions. We also show that the answer is positive if we consider
viscous perturbations of the nonlocal equations. In this case, in the singular
local limit the solutions converge to the solution of the viscous conservation
law.Comment: 26 page
Initial-boundary value problems for continuity equations with BV coefficients
We establish well-posedness of initial-boundary value problems for continuity
equations with BV (bounded total variation) coefficients. We do not prescribe
any condition on the orientation of the coefficients at the boundary of the
domain. We also discuss some examples showing that, regardless the orientation
of the coefficients at the boundary, uniqueness may be violated as soon as the
BV regularity deteriorates at the boundary.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figure