# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2011, 31(4): 1151-1195. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.31.1151

## An existence and uniqueness result for flux limited diffusion equations

 1 DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Roc Boronat 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain

Received  November 2009 Revised  January 2010 Published  September 2011

We prove existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions of the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear parabolic equation $u_t$ $= div$ $a$$(u,Du) with initial condition u_0 \in BV(\mathbb{R}^N), u_0$$\geq 0$, where $a(z,\xi)$ = $\nabla_\xi f(z,\xi)$ and $f$ is a convex function of $\xi$ with linear growth as $\Vert \xi\Vert \to\infty$, satisfying other additional assumptions that cover the case of the so-called relativistic heat equation and other flux limited diffusion equations used in the theory of radiation hydrodynamics.
Citation: Vicent Caselles. An existence and uniqueness result for flux limited diffusion equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2011, 31 (4) : 1151-1195. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.31.1151
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##### References:
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Society (JEMS), 7 (2005), 361-393. doi: 10.4171/JEMS/32.  Google Scholar [6] F. Andreu, V. Caselles, J. M. Mazón and S. Moll, Finite propagation speed for limited flux diffusion equations, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 182 (2006), 269-297. doi: 10.1007/s00205-006-0428-3.  Google Scholar [7] F. Andreu, V. Caselles and J. M. Mazón, Some regularity results on the 'relativistic' heat equation, J. Diff. Equat., 245 (2008), 3639-3663. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2008.06.024.  Google Scholar [8] F. Andreu, V. Caselles, J. M. Mazón and S. Moll, The Dirichlet problem associated to the relativistic heat equation, Math. Ann., 347 (2010), 135-199. doi: 10.1007/s00208-009-0428-3.  Google Scholar [9] G. Anzellotti, Pairings between measures and bounded functions and compensated compactness, Ann. di Matematica Pura ed Appl. (4), 135 (1983), 293-318.  Google Scholar [10] Ph. Bénilan, L. Boccardo, T. Gallouët, R. Gariepy, M. Pierre and J. L. 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Nonlinear Differential Equation Appl., 7, Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, MA, (1992), 89-97.  Google Scholar [15] Ph. Blanc, On the regularity of the solutions of some degenerate parabolic equations, Comm. in Partial Diff. Equat., 18 (1993), 821-846.  Google Scholar [16] Ph. Blanc, "Sur une Classe d'Equations Paraboliques Degeneréesa une Dimension d'Espace Possedant des Solutions Discontinues," Ph.D. Thesis, number 798, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1989. Google Scholar [17] Y. Brenier, Extended Monge-Kantorovich theory, in "Optimal Transportation and Applications" (eds., L. A. Caffarelli and S. Salsa) (Martina-Franca, 2001), Lecture Notes in Math., 1813, Springer, Berlin, 2003, 91-121.  Google Scholar [18] F. Browder, Pseudo-monotone operators and nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems on unbounded domains, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 74 (1977), 2659-2661. doi: 10.1073/pnas.74.7.2659.  Google Scholar [19] J. Carrillo and P. 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Math., 93 (1971), 265-298. doi: 10.2307/2373376.  Google Scholar [24] G. Dal Maso, Integral representation on $BV(\Omega)$ of $\Gamma$-limits of variational integrals,, Manuscripta Math., 30 (): 387.  doi: 10.1007/BF01301259.  Google Scholar [25] R. Dal Passo, Uniqueness of the entropy solution of a strongly degenerate parabolic equation, Comm. in Partial Diff. Equat., 18 (1993), 265-279.  Google Scholar [26] A. Chertock, A. Kurganov and P. Rosenau, Formation of discontinuities in flux-saturated degenerate parabolic equations, Nonlinearity, 16 (2003), 1875-1898. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/16/6/301.  Google Scholar [27] V. De Cicco, N. Fusco and A. Verde, On $L^1$-lower semicontinuity in $BV$, J. Convex Anal., 12 (2005), 173-185.  Google Scholar [28] E. De Giorgi and L. Ambrosio, Un nuovo tipo di funzionale del calcolo delle variazioni, (Italian) [New functionals in the calculus of variations], Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Rend. Cl. Sci. Mat Fis. Natur. 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