Constrained systems of conservation laws: a geometric theory

DOI10.4310/MAA.2017.V24.N4.A1zbMATH Open1391.35273arXiv1510.06677WikidataQ129945384 ScholiaQ129945384MaRDI QIDQ1746929FDOQ1746929

Moritz Reintjes

Publication date: 26 April 2018

Published in: Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the Riemann and Cauchy problems for systems of $n$ conservation laws in $m$ unknowns which are subject to $m-n$ constraints ($mgeqn$). Such constrained systems generalize systems of conservation laws in standard form to include various examples of conservation laws in Physics and Engineering beyond gas dynamics, e.g., multi-phase flow in porous media. We prove local well-posedness of the Riemann problem and global existence of the Cauchy problem for initial data with sufficiently small total variation, in one spatial dimension. The key to our existence theory is to generalize the $mimesn$ systems of constrained conservation laws to $nimesn$ systems of conservation laws with states taking values in an $n$-dimensional manifold and to extend Lax's theory for local existence as well as Glimm's random choice method to our geometric framework. Our resulting existence theory allows for the accumulation function to be non-invertible across hypersurfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06677

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann problemrelaxation systemsGlimm schemecurved state space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67)

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