609 RWTH Publication No: 855807        2022       
TITLE Conservation laws with nonlocal velocity - the singular limit problem
AUTHORS Jan Friedrich, Simone Göttlich, Alexander Keimer, Lukas Pflug
ABSTRACT We consider conservation laws with nonlocal velocity and show for nonlocal weights of exponential type that the unique solutions converge in a weak or strong sense (dependent on the regularity of the velocity) to the entropy solution of the local conservation law when the nonlocal weight approaches a Dirac distribution. To this end, we establish first a uniform total variation estimate on the nonlocal velocity which enables it to prove that the nonlocal solution is entropy admissible in the limit. For the entropy solution, we use a tailored entropy flux pair which allows the usage of only one entropy to obtain uniqueness (given some additional constraints). For general weights, we show that monotonicity of the initial datum is preserved over time which enables it to prove the convergence to the local entropy solution for rather general kernels and monotone initial datum as well. This covers the archetypes of local conservation laws: Shock waves and rarefactions. It also underlines that a “nonlocal in the velocity” approximation might be better suited to approximate local conservation laws than a nonlocal in the solution approximation where such monotonicity does only hold for specific velocities.
KEYWORDS nonlocal conservation law, nonlocal in velocity, convergence, weak entropy solution, monotonicity preserving, singular limit, singular limit for nonlocal in velocity conservation laws
DOI 10.1137/22M153047
PUBLICATION SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Vol. 84, Iss. 2 (2024)