This paper addresses the issue of the formulation of weak solutions to systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws as integral balance laws. The basic idea is that the “meaningful objects” are the fluxes, evaluated across domain boundaries over time intervals. The fundamental result in this treatment is the regularity of the flux trace in the multi-dimensional setting. It implies that a weak solution indeed satisfies the balance law. In fact, it is shown that the flux is Lipschitz continuous with respect to suitable perturbations of the boundary. It should be emphasized that the weak solutions considered here need not be entropy solutions. Furthermore, the assumption imposed on the flux f(u) is quite minimal—just that it is locally bounded.
Matania Ben-Artzi, Jiequan Li
. Regularity of Fluxes in Nonlinear Hyperbolic Balance Laws[J]. Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2023
, 5(3)
: 1289
-1298
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DOI: 10.1007/s42967-022-00224-y
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