Marco Di Francesco

Università degli Studi dell'Aquila | Università dell'Aquila · Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics

We study a system of two continuity equations with nonlocal velocity fields using interaction potentials of both attractive and repulsive Morse type. Such a system is of interest in many contexts in multi-population modelling. We prove existence, uniqueness and stability in the 2-Wasserstein spaces of probability measures via Jordan-Kinderlehrer-Ot...

We consider a class of nonlocal conservation laws with an interaction kernel supported on the negative real half-line and featuring a decreasing jump at the origin. We provide, for the first time, an existence and uniqueness theory for said model with initial data in the space of probability measures. Our concept of solution allows to sort a lack o...

We provide an overview of the results on Hughes’ model for pedestrian movements available in the literature. The model consists of a nonlinear conservation law coupled with an eikonal equation. The main difficulty in developing a proper mathematical theory lies in the lack of regularity of the flux in the conservation law, which yields the possibil...

We provide an overview of the results on Hughes' model for pedestrian movements available in the literature. After the first successful approaches to solving a regularised version of the model, researchers focused on the structure of the Riemann problem, which led to local-in-time existence results for Riemann-type data and paved the way for a WFT...

We study the mathematical theory of second order systems with two species, arising in the dynamics of interacting particles subject to linear damping, to nonlocal forces and to external ones, and resulting into a nonlocal version of the compressible Euler system with linear damping. Our results are limited to the 1 space dimensional case but allow...

We consider the follow-the-leader particle approximation scheme for a [Formula: see text] scalar conservation law with non-negative compactly supported [Formula: see text] initial datum and with a [Formula: see text] concave flux, which is known to provide convergence towards the entropy solution [Formula: see text] to the corresponding Cauchy prob...

We study the mathematical theory of second order systems with two species, arising in the dynamics of interacting particles subject to linear damping, to nonlocal forces and to external ones, and resulting into a nonlocal version of the compressible Euler system with linear damping. Our results are limited to the $1$ space dimensional case but allo...

We study a particle approximation for one-dimensional first-order Mean-Field-Games (MFGs) with local interactions with planning conditions. Our problem comprises a system of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a transport equation. As we deal with the planning problem, we prescribe initial and terminal distributions for the transport equation....

We study a particle approximation for one-dimensional first-order Mean-Field-Games (MFGs) with local interactions with planning conditions. Our problem comprises a system of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a transport equation. As we deal with the planning problem, we prescribe initial and terminal distributions for the transport equation....

We consider a one-dimensional discrete particle system of two species coupled through nonlocal interactions driven by the Newtonian potential, with repulsive self-interaction and attractive cross-interaction. After providing a suitable existence theory in a finite-dimensional framework, we explore the behaviour of the particle system in case of col...

We consider the follow-the-leader particle approximation scheme for a $1d$ scalar conservation law with nonnegative $L^\infty_c$ initial datum and with a $C^1$ concave flux, which is known to provide convergence towards the entropy solution $\rho$ to the corresponding Cauchy problem. We provide two novel contributions to this theory. First, we prov...

We consider a discrete particle system of two species coupled through nonlocal interactions driven by the one-dimensional Newtonian potential, with repulsive self-interaction and attractive cross-interaction. After providing a suitable existence theory in a finite-dimensional framework, we explore the behaviour of the particle system in case of col...

This paper deals with the derivation of entropy solutions to Cauchy problems for a class of scalar conservation laws with space-density depending fluxes from systems of deterministic particles of follow-the-leader type. We consider fluxes which are product of a function of the density $v(\rho)$ and a function of the space variable $\phi(x)$. We cov...

We prove global-in-time existence and uniqueness of measure solutions of a nonlocal interaction system of two species in one spatial dimension. For initial data including atomic parts we provide a notion of gradient-flow solutions in terms of the pseudo-inverses of the corresponding cumulative distribution functions, for which the system can be sta...

We review our analytical and numerical results obtained on the microscopic Follow-The-Leader (FTL) many particle approximation of one-dimensional conservation laws. More precisely, we introduce deterministic particle schemes for the Hughes model for pedestrian movements and for two vehicular traffic models that are the scalar Lighthill–Whitham–Rich...

We construct a deterministic, Lagrangian many-particle approximation to a class of nonlocal transport PDEs with nonlinear mobility arising in many contexts in biology and social sciences. The approximating particle system is a nonlocal version of the follow-the-leader scheme. We rigorously prove that a suitable discrete piece-wise density reconstru...

In this paper we consider a one-dimensional nonlocal interaction equation with quadratic porous-medium type diffusion in which the interaction kernels are attractive, nonnegative, and integrable on the real line. Earlier results in the literature have shown existence of nontrivial steady states if the $L^1$ norm of the kernel $G$ is larger than the...

We investigate a class of systems of partial differential equations with nonlinear cross-diffusion and nonlocal interactions, which are of interest in several contexts in social sciences, finance, biology, and real world applications. Assuming a uniform "coerciveness" assumption on the diffusion part, which allows to consider a large class of syste...

In this paper we prove that the unique entropy solution to a scalar nonlinear conservation law with strictly monotone velocity and nonnegative initial condition can be rigorously obtained as the large particle limit of a microscopic follow-the-leader type model, which is interpreted as the discrete Lagrangian approximation of the nonlinear scalar c...

Macroscopic models for systems involving diffusion, short-range repulsion, and long-range attraction have been studied extensively in the last decades. In this paper we extend the analysis to a system for two species interacting with each other according to different inner- and intra-species attractions. Under suitable conditions on this self- and...

We review the recent results and present new ones on a deterministic follow-the-leader particle approximation of first-and second-order models for traffic flow and pedestrian movements. We start by constructing the particle scheme for the first-order Lighthill–Whitham–Richards (LWR) model for traffic flow. The approximation is performed by a set of...

In this paper we present a new approach to the solution to a generalized version of Hughes' models for pedestrian movements based on a follow-the-leader many particle approximation. In particular, we provide a rigorous global existence result under a smallness assumption on the initial data ensuring that the trace of the solution along the turning...

We consider the Follow-The-Leader approximation of the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model for traffic flow in a multi-population formulation. We prove rigorous convergence to weak solutions of the ARZ system in the many particle limit in presence of vacuum. The result is based on uniform $\mathbf{BV}$ estimates on the discrete particle velocity. We comple...

We review our analytical and numerical results obtained on the microscopic Follow-The-Leader (FTL) many particle approximation of one-dimensional conservation laws. More precisely, we introduce deterministic particle schemes for the Hughes model for pedestrian movements and for two vehicular traffic models, that are the scalar Lighthill-Whitham-Ric...

We review some results in the literature which attempted (only partly successfully) at linking the theory of scalar conservation laws with the Wasserstein gradient flow theory. In particular, we consider the problem of writing a scalar conservation law within the Wasserstein gradient flow theory. As a related problem, we also review results on cont...

We consider a two-species system of nonlocal interaction PDEs modeling the swarming dynamics of predators and prey, in which all agents interact through attractive/repulsive forces of gradient type. In order to model the predator–prey interaction, we prescribed proportional potentials (with opposite signs) for the cross-interaction part. The model...

We prove that the unique entropy solution to a scalar nonlinear conservation law with strictly monotone velocity and nonnegative initial condition can be rigorously obtained as the large particle limit of a microscopic follow-the-leader type model, which is interpreted as the discrete Lagrangian approximation of the nonlinear scalar conservation la...

http://de.arxiv.org/pdf/1404.7062 We prove that the unique entropy solution to the macroscopic Lighthill-Witham-Richards model for traffic flow can be rigorously obtained as the large particle limit of the microscopic follow-the-leader model, which is interpreted as the discrete Lagrangian approximation of the former. More precisely, we prove that...

We study the long time behavior of the Wasserstein gradient flow for an energy functional consisting of two components: particles are attracted to a fixed profile $\omega$ by means of an interaction kernel $\psi_a(z)=|z|^{q_a}$,and they repel each other by means of another kernel $\psi_r(z)=|z|^{q_r}$. We focus on the case of one space dimension an...

The understanding of fast exit and evacuation situations in crowd motion research has received a lot of scientific interest in the last decades. Security issues in larger facilities, like shopping malls, sports centers, or festivals necessitate a better understanding of the major driving forces in crowd dynamics. In this paper we present an optimal...

We prove the equivalence between the notion of Wasserstein gradient flow for a one-dimensional nonlocal transport PDE with attractive/repulsive Newtonian potential on one side, and the notion of entropy solution of a Burgers-type scalar conservation law on the other. The solution of the former is obtained by spatially differentiating the solution o...

This paper presents a systematic existence and uniqueness theory of weak measure solutions for systems of non-local interaction PDEs with two species, which are the PDE counterpart of systems of deterministic interacting particles with two species. The main motivations behind those models arise in cell biology, pedestrian movements, and opinion for...

We study nonnegative, measure-valued solutions to nonlinear drift type equations modelling concentration phenomena related to Bose-Einstein particles. In one spatial dimension, we prove existence and uniqueness for measure solutions. Moreover, we prove that all solutions blow up in finite time leading to a concentration of mass only at the origin,...

In this paper we present an optimal control approach modeling fast exit scenarios in pedestrian crowds. In particular we consider the case of a large human crowd trying to exit a room as fast as possible. The motion of every pedestrian is determined by minimizing a cost functional, which depends on his/her position, velocity, exit time and the over...

We consider a nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion equation with inhomogeneous convection and prove that its entropy solutions in the sense of Kru\v{z}kov are obtained as the - a posteriori unique - limit points of the JKO variational approximation scheme for an associated gradient flow in the $L^2$-Wasserstein space. The equation lacks the ne...

This paper deals with a coupled system consisting of a scalar conservation law and an Eikonal equation, called the Hughes model. Introduced in the paper by R. L. Hughes [Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 36, No. 6, 507–535(2002)], this model attempts to describe the motion of pedestrians in a densely crowded region, in which they are s...

The dependence of tumor on essential nutrients is known to be crucial for its evolution and has become one of the targets for medical therapies. Based on this fact a reaction-diffusion system with chemotaxis term and nutrient-based growth of tumors is presented. The formulation of the model considers also an influence of tumor and pharmacological f...

We study the existence and uniqueness of nontrivial stationary solutions to a nonlocal aggregation equation with quadratic diffusion arising in many contexts in population dynamics. The equation is the Wasserstein gradient flow generated by the energy E, which is the sum of a quadratic free energy and the interaction energy. The interaction kernel...

In this paper we investigate the mathematical theory of Hughes' model for the flow of pedestrians (cf. Hughes (2002) [17]), consisting of a non-linear conservation law for the density of pedestrians coupled with an eikonal equation for a potential modelling the common sense of the task. For such an approximated system we prove existence and uniquen...

We study the system c t +u·∇c=Δc-nf,n t +u·∇n=Δn m -∇·(nχ∇c),u t +u·∇u+∇P-ηΔu+n∇ϕ=0,∇·u=0, arising in the modelling of the motion of swimming bacteria under the effect of diffusion, oxygen-taxis and transport through an incompressible fluid. The novelty with respect to previous papers in the literature lies in the presence of nonlinear porous-mediu...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the mathematical properties of a continuum model for diffusion of multiple species incorporating size exclusion effects. The system for two species leads to nonlinear cross-diffusion terms with double degeneracy, which creates significant novel challenges in the analysis of the system. We prove global existen...

The aim of this paper is to establish rigorous results on the large time behavior of nonlocal models for aggregation, including the possible presence of nonlinear diusion terms modeling local repulsions. We show that, as expected from the practical motiva- tion as well as from numerical simulations, one obtains concentrated densities (Dirac distrib...

In this paper we study a fully parabolic version of the Keller-Segel system in presence of a volume filling effect which prevents blow up of the L ∞ norm. This effect is sometimes referred to as prevention of overcrowding. As in the parabolic elliptic version of this model (previously studied in [BDFDS06]), the results in this paper basically infer...

In this paper we deal with diffusive relaxation limits of nonlinear systems of Euler type modeling chemotactic movement of cells toward Keller--Segel type systems. The approximating systems are either hyperbolic--parabolic or hyperbolic--elliptic. They all feature a nonlinear pressure term arising from a \emph{volume filling effect} which takes int...

We study the long-time asymptotics of reaction-diffusion-type systems that feature a monotone decaying entropy (Lyapunov, free energy) functional. We consider both bounded domains and confining potentials on the whole space for arbitrary space dimensions. Our aim is to derive quantitative expressions for (or estimates of) the rates of convergence t...

We prove asymptotic stability results for nonlinear bipolar drift-diffusion-Poisson Systems arising in semiconductor device modeling and plasma physics in one space dimension. In particular, we prove that, under certain structural assumptions on the external potentials and on the doping profile, all solutions match for large times with respect to a...

We study a scalar conservation law with a nonlinear dissipative inhomogeneity, which serves as a simplified model for nonlinear heat radiation effects in high-temperature gases. We establish global existence and uniqueness of weak entropy solutions along with L1 contraction and monotonicity properties of the solution semigroup. We derive explicit t...

We study the initial value problem for a hyperbolic-elliptic coupled system with L ∞ initial data. We prove global-in-time existence and uniqueness for that model by means of contraction and comparison properties. Moreover, after suitable scalings, we analyze both the hyperbolic–hyperbolic and the hyperbolic–parabolic relaxation limits for the mode...

We review several results concerning the long-time asymptotics of nonlinear diffusion models based on entropy and mass transport methods. Semidiscretization of these nonlinear diffusion models are proposed and their numerical properties analyzed. We demonstrate the long-time asymptotic results by numerical simulation and we discuss several open pro...

The aim of this paper is to analyze contractivity properties of Wasserstein-type metrics for one-dimensional scalar conservation laws with nonnegative, L∞ and compactly supported initial data and its implications on the long time asymptotics. The flux is assumed to be convex and without any growth condition at the zero state. We propose a time-para...

We are concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a simplified model describing the evolution of a radiating gas. More precisely, we shall prove the convergence of Hs solutions toward the classical diffusion wave of the viscous Burgers equation by means of entropy methods. The result is also endowed with the same L1 rate of converge...

We show that the Euclidean Wasserstein distance between two compactly supported solutions of the one–dimensional porous medium equation having the same center of mass decays to zero for large times. As a consequence, we detect an improved L 1 L^1 –rate of convergence of solutions of the one–dimensional porous medium equation towards well–centered s...

We investigate the long time asymptotics in L 1+(R) for solutions of general nonlinear diffusion equations u t = Δϕ(u). We describe, for the first time, the intermediate asymptotics for a very large class of non-homogeneous nonlinearities ϕ for which long time asymptotics cannot be characterized by self-similar solutions. Scaling the solutions by t...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the eects of linear and nonlin- ear diusion in the large time asymptotic behavior of the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis with volume filling eect. In the linear diusion case we provide several sucient conditions such that the diusion part dominates and yields decay to zero of solutions. We also provide an explic...

In this paper we study the large time behavior for the vis-cous Burgers' equation with initial data in L 1 (R). In particular, after a time dependent scaling, we provide the optimal rate of convergence in relative entropy and Wasserstein metric, towards an equilibrium state corresponding to a positive diffusive wave. The main tool in our anal-ysis...

In this paper we study the global existence and the relaxation limit for a 3 × 3 hyperbolic system of conservation laws with sublinear relaxation term. In particular, the convergence for solutions in Sobolev spaces toward the solutions to the equilibrium system, which is a 2 × 2 degenerate parabolic system, is proved. This is the first example of a...

We investigate the singular limit for the solutions to the compressible gas dynamics equations with damping term, after a parabolic scaling, in the one-dimensional isentropic case. In particular, we study the convergence in Sobolev norms towards diffusive prophiles, in case of well-prepared initial data and small perturbations of them. The results...

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