Particle dynamics with elastic collision at the boundary: existence and partial uniqueness of solutions

DOI10.1007/S10440-021-00423-4zbMATH Open1470.34044arXiv2011.14485OpenAlexW3184873359MaRDI QIDQ2230575FDOQ2230575

Authors: Masato Kimura, Patrick van Meurs, Zhenxing Yang 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the dynamics of point particles which are confined to a bounded, possibly nonconvex domain $Omega$. Collisions with the boundary are described as purely elastic collisions. This turns the description of the particle dynamics into a coupled system of second order ODEs with discontinuous right-hand side. The main contribution of this paper is to develop a precise solution concept for this particle system, and to prove existence of solutions. In this proof we construct a solution by passing to the limit in an auxiliary problem based on the Yosida approximation. In addition to existence of solutions, we establish a partial uniqueness theorem, and show by means of a counterexample that uniqueness of solutions cannot hold in general.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14485

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zbMATH Keywords

elastic collisions2nd order ODEs with discontinuous right-hand sideanalysis of particle systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35)

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