Abstract
We investigate a class of nonlocal conservation laws with the nonlinear advection coupling both local and nonlocal mechanism, which arises in several applications such as the collective motion of cells and traffic flows. It is proved that the C1 solution regularity of this class of conservation laws will persist at least for a short time. This persistency may continue as long as the solution gradient remains bounded. Based on this result, we further identify sub-thresholds for finite time shock formation in traffic flow models with Arrhenius look-ahead dynamics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 323-339 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
Keywords
- Critical threshold
- Nonlocal conservation laws
- Shock formation
- Traffic flows
- Well-posedness