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Advection-diffusion equations with density constraints

Analysis of PDEs 2016-03-03 v2

Abstract

In the spirit of the macroscopic crowd motion models with hard congestion (i.e. a strong density constraint ρ1\rho\leq 1) introduced by Maury {\it et al.} some years ago, we analyze a variant of the same models where diffusion of the agents is also taken into account. From the modeling point of view, this means that individuals try to follow a given spontaneous velocity, but are subject to a Brownian diffusion, and have to adapt to a density constraint which introduces a pressure term affecting the movement. From the PDE point of view, this corresponds to a modified Fokker-Planck equation, with an additional gradient of a pressure (only living in the saturated zone {ρ=1}\{\rho=1\}) in the drift. The paper proves existence and some estimates, based on optimal transport techniques.

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@article{arxiv.1503.02311,
  title  = {Advection-diffusion equations with density constraints},
  author = {Alpár Richárd Mészáros and Filippo Santambrogio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02311},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Accepted paper to the journal Analysis & PDE. The title of our paper has changed (originally it was: "A diffusive model for macroscopic crowd motion with density constraints") according to a referee's suggestion

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