Well-posedness and approximation of a measure-valued mass evolution problem with flux boundary conditions (Q2438562)

Suppose that particles move on the interval \([0,1]\), forced by an externally determined velocity field \(v(x)\), \(x \in [0,1]\), in a system such that there is no interaction among individuals and once a particle arrives at \(x=1\), it stays there and can be removed from the system randomly at a time after arrival that is exponentially distributed with a constant removal rate \(a \geq 0\). If a particle is initially distributed according to the probability measure \(\nu_0\), then the distribution of the particle at time \(t\) satisfies \[ \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \mu_t +\frac{\partial}{\partial x}(v \mu_t) = -a \mu_t(\{t\}) \delta_1, \quad \mu_0 = \nu_0. \] This paper notes that this mass evolution problem is approchable through mild solutions, while it can be obtained as limit of a family of systems with interaction in a shrinking boundary layer.