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Uniqueness for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux via adapted entropies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2007

Emmanuel Audusse
Affiliation:
INRIA Rocquencourt, projet BANG, Domaine de Voluceau BP105, F78153 LeChesany Cedex, France ([email protected])
Benoît Perthame
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, DMA, UMR8553, 45 rue d'Ulm, F75230 Paris, France and INRIA Rocquencourt, projet BANG, Domaine de Voluceau BP105, F78153 LeChesany Cedex, France ([email protected])

Abstract

We prove uniqueness of solutions to scalar conservation laws with space discontinuous fluxes. To do so, we introduce a partial adaptation of Kružkov's entropies which naturally takes into account the space dependency of the flux. The advantage of this approach is that the proof turns out to be a simple variant of the original method of Kružkov. In particular, we do not need traces, interface conditions, bounded variation assumptions (neither on the solution nor on the flux), or convex fluxes. However, we use a special ‘local uniform invertibility’ structure of the flux, which applies to cases where different interface conditions are known to yield different solutions

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2005

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