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On scalar conservation laws with point source and discontinuous flux function

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Summary, in English

The conservation law studied is partial derivative u(x,t)/partial derivative t + partial derivative/partial derivative x (F(u(x,t),x)) = s(t)delta(x), where u is a concentration, s is a source, delta is the Dirac measure, and is the flux function. The special feature of this problem is the discontinuity that appears along the t-axis and the curves of discontinuity that go into and emanate from it. Necessary conditions for the existence of La piecewise smooth solution are given. Under some regularity assumptions sufficient conditions are given enabling construction of piecewise smooth solutions by the method of characteristics. The selection of a unique solution is made by a coupling condition at x = 0, which is a generalization of the classical entropy condition and is justified by studying a discretized version of the problem by Godunov's method.



The motivation for studying this problem is the fact that it arises in the modelling of continuous sedimentation of solid particles in a liquid.

Department/s

Publishing year

1995

Language

English

Pages

1425-1451

Publication/Series

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volume

26

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Topic

  • Mathematics

Keywords

  • POINT SOURCE
  • DISCONTINUOUS FLUX
  • CONSERVATION LAWS
  • CONVEXITY

Status

Published

Research group

  • Partial differential equations

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0036-1410