Special Session 187: New Trends in Crowd Dynamics and Traffic Flow

Fully discrete follow-the-leader approximation of one-dimensional scalar conservation laws with vacuum
Valeria Iorio
University of L`Aquila
Italy
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Abstract:
We present a fully discrete particle approximation for one-dimensional scalar conservation laws. Under suitable monotonicity assumptions on the macroscopic velocity, we construct a vacuum-compatible family of time-discrete particle equations and show that an appropriate piecewise-constant density reconstruction from the particle setting converges to the unique entropy weak solution of the macroscopic scalar conservation law. This is a joint work with Marco Di Francesco, Simone Fagioli, and Massimiliano Daniele Rosini.