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Cauchy Problem for the Nonhomogeneous Hyperbolic Conservation

Laws with the Degenerate Viscous Term

Wang Bing;Xu Xuewen   

  1. Laboratory of Nonlinear Analysis, School of Mathematics and Statistics,
    Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Received:2005-09-08 Revised:2007-07-29 Online:2008-02-25 Published:2008-02-25
  • Contact: Wang Bing

Abstract: In this paper, the authors consider Cauchy problem for the nonhomogeneous hyperbolic conservation
laws with the degenerate viscous term

{ut+f(u)x=a2tαuxx+g(u),   xR,   t>0,u(x,0)=u0(x)L(R).\eqno(I)

where here f(u),g(u) is a one order continuous and differentiable function defined on
R,a>0,0<α<1 are both constants. Under these conditions, the authors obtain the
local existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem (I). Then, the authors get L estimate of solution
by the maximum principle and make use of the extension theorem to obtain the global existence.

Key words: Hyperbolic conservation laws, Degenerate viscosity, Maximum principle, Lestimate, Global existence

CLC Number: 

  • 35L80
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