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This work studies a macroscopic traffic flow model driven by a system of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. Using Lie symmetry analysis, we determine the infinitesimal generators and construct an optimal system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Urvashi Joshi , Aniruddha Kumar Sharma , Rajan Arora

Solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws can be approximated in many different ways: by vanishing viscosity, relaxations, discrete or semi-discrete numerical schemes, approximation with a nonlocal flux, etc$\ldots$ For some of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Alberto Bressan , Laura Caravenna , Wen Shen

In closed systems, dynamical symmetries lead to conservation laws. However, conservation laws are not applicable to open systems that undergo irreversible transformations. More general selection rules are needed to determine whether, given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Borzu Toloui , Gilad Gour

This paper presents recent work on connections between symmetries and conservation laws. After reviewing Noether's theorem and its limitations, we present the Direct Construction Method to show how to find directly the conservation laws for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 George Bluman

A recent paper considered symmetries and conservation laws of the plane one-dimensional flows for magnetohydrodynamics in the mass Lagrangian coordinates. This paper analyses the one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics flows with cylindrical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Vladimir A. Dorodnitsyn , Evgeniy I. Kaptsov , Roman V. Kozlov , Sergey V. Meleshko

Using the maximal Lie algebra of point symmetries of a system of nonlinear equations used in geophysical fluid dynamics, two conservation laws are found in addition to the conservation of energy.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Nail H. Ibragimov , Ranis N. Ibragimov

We present a numerical method for scalar conservation laws in one space dimension. The solution is approximated by local similarity solutions. While many commonly used approaches are based on shocks, the presented method uses rarefaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-23 Yossi Farjoun , Benjamin Seibold

We propose a notion of hyperbolic system of conservation laws invariant for the Galileo group of transformations. We show that with natural physical and mathematical hypotheses, such a system conducts to the gas dynamics equations or to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 François Dubois

We consider nxn hyperbolic systems of balance laws in one-space dimension under the assumption that all negative (resp. positive) characteristics are linearly degenerate. We prove the local exact one-sided boundary null controllability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Tatsien Li , Lei Yu

Any symmetry reduces a second-order differential equation to a first integral: variational symmetries of the action (exemplified by central field dynamics) lead to conservation laws, but symmetries of only the equations of motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Sidney Bludman , Dallas C. Kennedy

Any symmetry reduces a second-order differential equation to a first-order equation: variational symmetries of the action (exemplified by central field dynamics) lead to conservation laws, but symmetries of only the equations of motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Sidney Bludman

Inspired by ``fracton hydrodynamic" universality classes of dynamics with unusual conservation laws, we present a new dynamical universality class that arises out of local area-preserving dynamics in the non-commutative plane. On this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Isabella Zane , Andrew Lucas

All possible linearly independent local conservation laws for $n$-dimensional diffusion--convection equations $u_t=(A(u))_{ii}+(B^i(u))_i$ were constructed using the direct method and the composite variational principle. Application of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 Nataliya M. Ivanova

Symmetry properties of conservation laws of partial differential equations are developed by using the general method of conservation law multipliers. As main results, simple conditions are given for characterizing when a conservation law…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Stephen C. Anco

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

We study extremal shocks of $1$-d hyperbolic systems of conservation laws which fail to be genuinely nonlinear. More specifically, we consider either $1$- or $n$-shocks in characteristic fields which are either concave-convex or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jeffrey Cheng

Based on Lie group method, potential symmetry and invariant solutions for generalized quasilinear hyperbolic equations are studied. To obtain the invariant solutions in explicit form, we focus on the physically interesting situations which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-17 M. Nadjafikhah , R. Bakhshandeh Chamazkoti , F. Ahangari

Lie symmetry group method is applied to study for the higher order Camassa-Holm equation. The symmetry group and its optimal system are given. Furthermore, preliminary classification of its group invariant solutions, symmetry reduction and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-23 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Vahid Shirvani-Sh

In this note we consider two different singular limits to hyperbolic system of conservation laws, namely the standard backward schemes for non linear semigroups and the semidiscrete scheme. Under the assumption that the rarefaction curve of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefano Bianchini

Under the hypothesis of small deformations, the equations of 1D elastodynamics write as a 2 x 2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws. Here, we study the Riemann problem for convex and nonconvex constitutive laws. In the convex case, the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 H Berjamin , B Lombard , G Chiavassa , N Favrie