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A Lax-Oleinik type explicit formula for 1D scalar balance laws has been recently obtained for the pure initial value problem by Adimurthi et al. in [1]. In this article, by introducing a suitable boundary functional, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Manas R. Sahoo , Abhrojyoti Sen , Manish Singh

This paper studies the smoothing effect for entropy solutions of conservation laws with general nonlinear convex fluxes on $\mathbb{R}$. Beside convexity, no additional regularity is assumed on the flux. Thus, we generalize the well-known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Billel Guelmame , Stéphane Junca , Didier Clamond

We consider the scalar conservation law in one space dimension with a genuinely nonlinear flux. We assume that an appropriate velocity function depending on the entropy solution of the conservation law is given for the comprising particles,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Masoumeh Dashti , Duc-Lam Duong

We consider a min-max problem for strictly concave conservation laws on a 1-1 network, with inflow controls acting at the junction. We investigate the minimization problem for a functional measuring the total variation of the flow of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Fabio Ancona , Annalisa Cesaroni , Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Mauro Garavello

We present a meshfree numerical solver for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension. Points representing the solution are moved according to their characteristic velocities. Particle interaction is resolved by purely local particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-11-15 Yossi Farjoun , Benjamin Seibold

We study a class of variational problems for regularized conservation laws with Lax's entropy-entropy flux pairs. We first introduce a modified optimal transport space based on conservation laws with diffusion. Using this space, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Wuchen Li , Siting Liu , Stanley Osher

We consider the initial value problem for a scalar conservation law in one space dimension with a single spatial flux discontinuity, the so-called two-flux problem. We prove that a well-known front tracking algorithm has a convergence rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Shyam Sundar Ghoshal , John D Towers

This article concerns a scalar multidimensional conservation law where the flux is of Panov type and may contain spatial discontinuities. We define a notion of entropy solution and prove that entropy solutions are unique. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Shyam Sundar Ghoshal , John D Towers , Ganesh Vaidya

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

Under a precise genuine nonlinearity assumption we establish the decay of entropy solutions of a multidimensional scalar conservation law with merely continuous flux.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Evgeny Yu. Panov

We propose some algorithms to find local minima in nonconvex optimization and to obtain global minima in some degree from the Newton Second Law without friction. With the key observation of the velocity observable and controllable in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Bin Shi

We show that, for first-order systems of conservation laws with a strictly convex entropy,in particular for the very simple so-called "inviscid" Burgers equation,it is possible to address the Cauchy problem by a suitable convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Yann Brenier

We consider well-balanced schemes for the following 1D scalar conservation law with source term: d_t u + d_x f(u) + z'(x) b(u) = 0. More precisely, we are interested in the numerical approximation of the initial boundary value problem for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Nolte , D. Kroener

In this paper we prove that the unique entropy solution to a scalar nonlinear conservation law with strictly monotone velocity and nonnegative initial condition can be rigorously obtained as the large particle limit of a microscopic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Marco Di Francesco , Simone Fagioli , Massimiliano D. Rosini

We continue the development of the theory of pathwise stochastic entropy solutions for scalar conservation laws in $\R^N$ with quasilinear multiplicative ''rough path'' dependence by considering inhomogeneous fluxes and a single rough path…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Pierre-Louis Lions , Benoit Perthame , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

This paper addresses the three concepts of \textit{ consistency, stability and convergence } in the context of compact finite volume schemes for systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. The treatment utilizes the framework of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Matania Ben-Artzi , Jiequan Li

This paper outlines a novel extension of the classical Pontryagin minimum (maximum) principle to stochastic optimal control problems. Contrary to the well-known stochastic Pontryagin minimum principle involving forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Manfred Opper , Sebastian Reich

We establish a general nonlocal approximation principle for the entropy solutions of scalar conservation laws on $\mathbb{R}$. More precisely, we show that the entropy solution to a nonnegative initial datum can be obtained as a weak-star…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Alexander Keimer , Lukas Pflug

We focus on the initial boundary value problem for a general scalar balance law in one space dimension. Under rather general assumptions on the flux and source functions, we prove the well-posedness of this problem and the stability of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Elena Rossi

The paper concerns the study of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for an infinite dimensional and infinite horizon boundary control problem for linear partial differential equations. The optimal control model has already been studied both in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-26 Silvia Faggian