# Solutions to aggregation-diffusion equations with nonlinear mobility constructed via a deterministic particle approximation

created by radici on 30 Jan 2018

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Inserted: 30 jan 2018
Last Updated: 30 jan 2018

Year: 2018

Abstract:

We investigate the existence of weak type solutions for a class of aggregation-diffusion PDEs with nonlinear mobility obtained as large particle limit of a suitable nonlocal version of the follow-the-leader scheme, which is interpreted as the discrete Lagrangian approximation of the target continuity equation. We restrict the analysis to nonnegative initial data in $L^{\infty} \cap BV$ away from vacuum and supported in a closed interval with zero-velocity boundary conditions. The main novelties of this work concern the presence of a nonlinear mobility term and the non strict monotonicity of the diffusion function. As a consequence, our result applies also to strongly degenerate diffusion equations. The conclusions are complemented with some numerical simulations.