Scalar conservation law in a bounded domain with strong source at boundary

Abstract

We consider a scalar conservation law with source in a bounded open interval $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb R$. The equation arises from the macroscopic evolution of an interacting particle system. The source term models an external effort driving the solution to a given function $\varrho$ with an intensity function $V:\Omega\to\mathbb R_+$ that grows to infinity at $\partial\Omega$. We define the entropy solution $u \in L^\infty$ and prove the uniqueness. When $V$ is integrable, $u$ satisfies the boundary conditions introduced in [F. Otto, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 1996], which allows the solution to attain values at $\partial\Omega$ different from the given boundary data. When the integral of $V$ blows up, $u$ satisfies an energy estimate and presents essential continuity at $\partial\Omega$ in a weak sense.