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Consider the inverse design problem for a scalar conservation law, i.e., the problem of finding initial data evolving into a given profile at a given time. The solution we present below takes into account localizations both in the final…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Vincent Perrollaz

Nonlinear scalar conservation laws are traditionally viewed as transport equations. We take instead the viewpoint of these PDEs as continuity equations with an implicitly defined velocity field. We show that a weak solution is the entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Ulrik S. Fjordholm , Ola H. Mæhlen , Magnus C. Ørke

We study one-dimensional conservation law. We develop a simple numerical method for computing the unique entropy admissible weak solution to the initial problem. The method basis on the equal-area principle and gives the solution for given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Marjeta Kramar Fijavž , Mitja Lakner , Marjeta Škapin Rugelj

In this article the pursuit problem of objects that moves with different accelerations and initial speeds is studied. Initially, the situation in which the escaping object moves in a straight line is considered. Under this condition, and if…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Luis Rozas

We consider a scalar conservation law with source in a bounded open interval $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb R$. The equation arises from the macroscopic evolution of an interacting particle system. The source term models an external effort driving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Lu Xu

We develop deterministic particle schemes to solve non-local scalar conservation laws with congestion. We show that the discrete approximations converge to the unique entropy solution with an explicit rate of convergence under more general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Emanuela Radici , Federico Stra

Obstacles to integrability in perturbed evolution equations are overcome by allowing higher-order terms in the expansion of the solution to depend explicitly on time and position. With a special expansion algorithm, obstacles vanish…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex Veksler , yair zarmi

Existence of solutions to an obstacle $p$-Laplacian problem exhibiting a singular, discontinuous reaction is proved. The reaction term may be discontinuous in a Lebesgue-negligible set. Moreover, solutions are shown to be locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Annamaria Barbagallo , Umberto Guarnotta

In the paper, we consider the obstacle problem, with one and two irregular barriers, for semilinear evolution equation involving measure data and operator corresponding to a semi-Dirichlet form. We prove the existence and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Tomasz Klimsiak

The obstacle problem is a class of free boundary problems which finds applications in many disciplines such as porous media, financial mathematics and optimal control. In this paper, we propose two operator-splitting methods to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Hao Liu , Dong Wang

We prove an existence and uniqueness result for the obstacle problem for quasilinear stochastic integral-partial differential equations. Our method is based on the probabilistic interpretation of the solution using backward doubly SDEs with…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Yuchao Dong , Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

Assessing the boundedness and stability of vector nonlinear systems with variable delays and coefficients remains a challenging problem with broad applications in science and engineering. Existing methods tend to produce overly conservative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Mark A. Pinsky

We construct an efficient numerical scheme for solving obstacle problems in divergence form. The numerical method is based on a reformulation of the obstacle in terms of an L1-like penalty on the variational problem. The reformulation is an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Giang Tran , Hayden Schaeffer , William M. Feldman , Stanley J. Osher

It is known that Flux Corrected Transport algorithms can produce entropy-violating solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws. Our purpose is to design flux correction with maximal antidiffusive fluxes to obtain entropy solutions of scalar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Sergii Kivva

We study a 1D scalar conservation law whose non-local flux has a single spatial discontinuity. This model is intended to describe traffic flow on a road with rough conditions. We approximate the problem through an upwind-type numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Felisia Angela Chiarello , Harold Deivi Contreras , Luis Miguel Villada

We propose a general strategy for enforcing multiple conservation laws and dissipation inequalities in the numerical solution of initial value problems. The key idea is to represent each conservation law or dissipation inequality by means…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Boris D. Andrews , Patrick E. Farrell

In this note, we study an obstacle problem for the elastic flow. We prove the local-in-time existence of weak solutions and discuss their relation to classical solutions when additional regularity is obtained. Related results concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Kensuke Yoshizawa

We deal with the Cauchy problem for multi-dimensional scalar conservation laws, where the fluxes and the source terms can be discontinuous functions of the unknown. The main novelty of the paper is the introduction of a~kinetic formulation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Miroslav Bulíček , Piotr Gwiazda , Agnieszka Świerczewska-Gwiazda

We study the regularity of solutions to the obstacle problem for the parabolic biharmonic equation. We analyze the problem via an implicit time discretization, and we prove some regularity properties of the solution.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Matteo Novaga , Shinya Okabe

In this paper, a PDE-ODE model with discontinuity in the flux as well as a flux constraint is analyzed. A modified Riemann solution is proposed and the existence of a weak solution to the Cauchy problem is rigorously investigated using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Hossein Nick Zinat Matin , Maria Laura Delle Monache