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Existence of energy-variational solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws

Analysis of PDEs 2022-11-23 v1

Abstract

We introduce the concept of energy-variational solutions for hyperbolic conservation laws. Intrinsically, these energy-variational solutions fulfill the weak-strong uniqueness principle and the semi-flow property, and the set of solutions is convex and weakly-star closed. The existence of energy-variational solutions is proven via a suitable time-discretization scheme under certain assumptions. This general result yields existence of energy-variational solutions to the magnetohydrodynamical equations for ideal incompressible fluids and to the Euler equations in both the incompressible and the compressible case. Moreover, we show that energy-variational solutions to the Euler equations coincide with dissipative weak solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2211.12307,
  title  = {Existence of energy-variational solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws},
  author = {Thomas Eiter and Robert Lasarzik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12307},
  year   = {2022}
}