Gradient Catastrophe for Solutions to the Conservation Laws with Source Term

Abstract

This paper studies singularity formation for conservation laws with a source term. Motivated by John (1974) and Barlin (2023), we prove finite-time blow-up under initial data conditions weaker than those in Barlin. Moreover, we show that a sufficiently small compact support length of the initial data promotes blow-up. Hence, global existence can only be achieved when the initial data have a large compact support length.