As noted by the second author in the context of unstable two-phase porous medium flow, entropy solutions of Burgers’ equation can be recovered from a minimizing movement scheme involving the Wasserstein metric in the limit of vanishing time step size [4]. In this paper, we give a simpler proof by verifying that the anti-derivative is a viscosity solution of the associated Hamilton Jacobi equati...

We describe a kinetic theory for shock clustering in scalar conservation laws with random initial data. Our main discovery is that for a natural class of random data the shock clustering is described by a completely integrable Hamiltonian system. Thus, the problem is in a precise sense exactly solvable. Our results have implications in other areas: mathematical physics (limits of shell models o...

We study the kinetics of two-species annihilation, A + B → 0, when all particles undergo strictly biased motion in the same direction and with an excluded volume repulsion between same species particles. It was recently shown that the density in this system decays as t −1/3 , compared to t −1/4 density decay in A+B → 0 with isotropic diffusion and either with or without the hard-core repulsion....

Spatially coarse-grained (or effective) versions of nonlinear partial differential equations must be closed with a model for the unresolved small scales. For systems that are known to display fractal scaling, we propose a model based on synthetically generating a scale-invariant field at small scales using fractal interpolation, and then analytically evaluating its effects on the large, resolve...

Abstract In this article, we obtain explicit solutions of a linear PDE subject to a class of radial square integrable functions with a monotonically increasing weight function |x|e 2/2, β ≥ 0, x ∈ R. This linear PDE is obtained from a system of forced Burgers equation via the Cole-Hopf transformation. For any spatial dimension n > 1, the solution is expressed in terms of a family of weighted ge...

We establish a simple relation between certain curvatures of the group of volumepreserving diffeomorphisms and the lifespan of potential solutions to the inviscid Burgers equation before the appearance of shocks. We show that shock formation corresponds to a focal point of the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms regarded as a submanifold of the full diffeomorphism group and, consequently...