An introduction to multidimensional conservation laws. Lecture 1
Presenter
July 13, 2009
Keywords:
- Conservation laws
MSC:
- 35L65
Abstract
This series of four lectures will provide an introduction
to multidimensional conservation laws, along with a perspective on a
list of open problems. The main topics will include:
Prototypes and Basic Features/Phenomena
Multidimensional Models
Multidimensional Steady Problems
Multidimensional Self-Similar Problems
Compressible Vortex Sheets and Related Problems
Divergence-Measure Fields and Hyperbolic Conservation
Laws
Lecture References:
Gui-Qiang Chen, Euler Equations and Related Hyperbolic
Conservation Laws, In: Handbook of Differential Equations:
Evolutionary Differential Equations, Vol. 2, pp. 1-104, 2005,
Eds. C.~M. Dafermos and E. Feireisl, Elsevier: Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Gui-Qiang Chen and Mikhail Feldman,
Shock Reflection-Diffraction and Multidimensional
Conservation Laws, In: Proceedings of the 2008 Hyperbolic
Conference: Theory, Numerics, and Application, AMS: Providence,
2009.
Gui-Qiang Chen, Monica Torres, and William Ziemer,
Measure-Theoretical Analysis and Nonlinear Conservation Laws,
Pure Appl. Math. Quarterly, 3 (2007), 841-879
(To Leon Simon on his 60th birthday).
Gui-Qiang Chen, Marshall Slemrod, and Dehua Wang,
Conservation
Laws: Transonic Flow and Differential Geometry, In: Proceedings
of
the 2008 Hyperbolic Conference: Theory, Numerics, and
Application,
AMS: Providence, 2009.
*You may directly download them from
http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~gqchen/preprints/