On nonlinear conservation laws with a nonlocal diffusion term

Conservation Laws with Vanishing Nonlinear Diffusion and Dispersion

We study the limiting behavior of the solutions to a class of conservation laws with vanishing nonlinear diffusion and dispersion terms. We prove the convergence to the entropy solution of the first order problem under a condition on the relative size of the diffusion and the dispersion terms. This work is motivated by the pseudo-viscosity approximation introduced by Von Neumann in the 50’s.

On Nonlinear Nonlocal Diffusion Equations

This is a study of a class of nonlocal nonlinear diffusion equations (NNDEs). We present several new qualitative results for nonlocal Dirichlet problems. It is shown that solutions with positive initial data remain positive through time, even for nonlinear problems; in addition, we prove that solutions to these equations obey a strong maximum principle. A striking result shows that nonlocal sol...

Conservation laws with a nonlocal flow, Application to pedestrian traffic

On a Nonlocal Aggregation Model with Nonlinear Diffusion

We consider a nonlocal aggregation equation with nonlinear diffusion which arises from the study of biological aggregation dynamics. As a degenerate parabolic problem, we prove the well-posedness, continuation criteria and smoothness of local solutions. For compactly supported nonnegative smooth initial data we prove that the gradient of the solution develops L∞ x -norm blowup in finite time.

Nonlocal symmetries and nonlocal conservation laws of Maxwell’s equations

Nonlocal symmetries are obtained for Maxwell’s equations in three space–time dimensions through the use of two potential systems involving scalar and vector potentials for the electromagnetic field. Corresponding nonlocal conservation laws are derived from these symmetries. The conservation laws yield nine functionally independent constants of motion which cannot be expressed in terms of the co...