
ISSN:
1556-1801
eISSN:
1556-181X
All Issues
Networks and Heterogeneous Media
June 2021 , Volume 16 , Issue 2
Select all articles
Export/Reference:
In this paper, we study a nonlinear fractional boundary value problem on a particular metric graph, namely, a circular ring with an attached edge. First, we prove existence and uniqueness of solutions using the Banach contraction principle and Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem. Further, we investigate different kinds of Ulam-type stability for the proposed problem. Finally, an example is given in order to demonstrate the application of the obtained theoretical results.
The well-known Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) kinematic model of traffic flow models the evolution of the local density of cars by a nonlinear scalar conservation law. The transition between free and congested flow regimes can be described by a flux or velocity function that has a discontinuity at a determined density. A numerical scheme to handle the resulting LWR model with discontinuous velocity was proposed in [J.D. Towers, A splitting algorithm for LWR traffic models with flux discontinuities in the unknown, J. Comput. Phys., 421 (2020), article 109722]. A similar scheme is constructed by decomposing the discontinuous velocity function into a Lipschitz continuous function plus a Heaviside function and designing a corresponding splitting scheme. The part of the scheme related to the discontinuous flux is handled by a semi-implicit step that does, however, not involve the solution of systems of linear or nonlinear equations. It is proved that the whole scheme converges to a weak solution in the scalar case. The scheme can in a straightforward manner be extended to the multiclass LWR (MCLWR) model, which is defined by a hyperbolic system of
In this paper, we propose a macroscopic model that describes the influence of a slow moving large vehicle on road traffic. The model consists of a scalar conservation law with a nonlocal constraint on the flux. The constraint level depends on the trajectory of the slower vehicle which is given by an ODE depending on the downstream traffic density. After proving well-posedness, we first build a finite volume scheme and prove its convergence, and then investigate numerically this model by performing a series of tests. In particular, the link with the limit local problem of [M. L. Delle Monache and P. Goatin, J. Differ. Equ. 257 (2014), 4015–4029] is explored numerically.
In this work we study the formation of consensus in homogeneous and heterogeneous populations, and the effect of attractiveness or fitness of the opinions. We derive the corresponding kinetic equations, analyze the long time behavior of their solutions, and characterize the consensus opinion.
In the first part of this series, an augmented PDE system was introduced in order to couple two nonlinear hyperbolic equations together. This formulation allowed the authors, based on Dafermos's self-similar viscosity method, to establish the existence of self-similar solutions to the coupled Riemann problem. We continue here this analysis in the restricted case of one-dimensional scalar equations and investigate the internal structure of the interface in order to derive a selection criterion associated with the underlying regularization mechanism and, in turn, to characterize the nonconservative interface layer. In addition, we identify a new criterion that selects double-waved solutions that are also continuous at the interface. We conclude by providing some evidence that such solutions can be non-unique when dealing with non-convex flux-functions.
In this paper we consider a non-standard dynamical inverse problem for the wave equation on a metric tree graph. We assume that positive masses may be attached to the internal vertices of the graph. Another specific feature of our investigation is that we use only one boundary actuator and one boundary sensor, all other observations being internal. Using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (acting from one boundary vertex to one boundary and all internal vertices) we recover the topology and geometry of the graph, the coefficients of the equations and the masses at the vertices.
2020
Impact Factor: 1.213
5 Year Impact Factor: 1.384
2020 CiteScore: 1.9
Readers
Authors
Editors
Referees
Librarians
Email Alert
Add your name and e-mail address to receive news of forthcoming issues of this journal:
[Back to Top]