Control of the continuity equation with a non local flow
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Volume 17 (2011) no. 2, p. 353-379

This paper focuses on the analytical properties of the solutions to the continuity equation with non local flow. Our driving examples are a supply chain model and an equation for the description of pedestrian flows. To this aim, we prove the well posedness of weak entropy solutions in a class of equations comprising these models. Then, under further regularity conditions, we prove the differentiability of solutions with respect to the initial datum and characterize this derivative. A necessary condition for the optimality of suitable integral functionals then follows.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2010007
Classification:  35L65,  49K20,  93C20
Keywords: optimal control of the continuity equation, non-local flows
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Colombo, Rinaldo M.; Herty, Michael; Mercier, Magali. Control of the continuity equation with a non local flow. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Volume 17 (2011) no. 2, pp. 353-379. doi : 10.1051/cocv/2010007. http://www.numdam.org/item/COCV_2011__17_2_353_0/

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