Control Theory Seminar | Adriano Festa, A semi-Lagrangian scheme for Hamilton-Jacobi equations on networks and its application to vehicular traffic models

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

MC 5501 and Zoom (Please contactÌýrgugliel@uwaterloo.ca for meetingÌýlink)Ìý
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Speaker

Adriano Festa, Associate Professor,ÌýDepartment of Mathematical Sciences at the Technical university of Turin

Title

A semi-Lagrangian scheme for Hamilton-Jacobi equations onÌýnetworks and its application to vehicular traffic models

Abstract

We present a semi-Lagrangian scheme for the approximation of a class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on networks. The scheme is explicit, consistent, and stable forÌýlarge time steps. We prove a convergence result and two error estimates. For an HJB equationÌýwith space-independent Hamiltonian, we obtain a first order error estimate. In the general case, weÌýprovide, under a hyperbolic CFL condition, a convergence estimate of order one half. The theoreticalÌýresults are discussed and validated in a numerical tests section, where we show some application of the techniques proposed to the approximation of traffic flows.