Minimization solutions to conservation laws with non-smooth and non-strictly convex flux

DOI10.3934/MATH.2018.1.96MaRDI QIDQ2335261zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Publication date 14 November 2019

Published in AIMS Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02339

Hamilton-Jacobi equations (35F21) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F31)

Abstract: Conservation laws are usually studied in the context of sufficient regularity conditions imposed on the flux function, usually

C^{2}

and uniform convexity. Some results are proven with the aid of variational methods and a unique minimizer such as Hopf-Lax and Lax-Oleinik. We show that many of these classical results can be extended to a flux function that is not necessarily smooth or uniformly or strictly convex. Although uniqueness a.e. of the minimizer will generally no longer hold, by considering the greatest (or supremum, where applicable) of all possible minimizers, we can successfully extend the results. One specific nonlinear case is that of a piecewise linear flux function, for which we prove existence and uniqueness results. We also approximate it by a smoothed, superlinearized version parameterized by

v a r e p s i l o n

and consider the characterization of the minimizers for the smooth version and limiting behavior as

v a r e p s i l o n d o w n a r r o w 0

to that of the sharp, polygonal problem. In proving a key result for the solution in terms of the value of the initial condition, we provide a stepping stone to analyzing the system under stochastic processes, which will be explored further in a future paper.

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