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Conservation law with discontinuous coefficent

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Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Sapienza Università di Roma

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ADIMURTHI TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, BANGALORE

Let f,g∈C1(R) and H be the Heaviside function. Consider the scalar conservation law ut​+F(x,u)=0, u(x,0)=u0​(x) for x∈R, t>0 and F(x,u)=H(x)f(u)+(1−H(x))g(u). Since the flux F is discontinuous at x=0, the general method of Kruskov is not applicable in order to obtain a solution. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi theory we obtain a unique solution satisfying the interphase entropy condition at the interphace x=0.