# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2016, 36(8): 4271-4285. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.4271

## Hyperbolic balance laws with relaxation

 1 Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States

Received  May 2015 Revised  August 2015 Published  March 2016

This expository paper surveys the progress in a research program aiming at establishing the existence and long time behavior of $BV$ solutions to the Cauchy problem for hyperbolic systems of balance laws modeling relaxation phenomena.
Citation: Constantine M. Dafermos. Hyperbolic balance laws with relaxation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (8) : 4271-4285. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.4271
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