We point out and examine two nonlinear, hyperbolic equations, both of which arise in kinematic-wave theory, that can be solved exactly using a conditional application of the Cole–Hopf transformation. Both of these equations are based on flux relations that were originally proposed as models of...

We construct a nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) scheme for a Burgers type partial differential equation (PDE) for which the diffusion coefficient has a linear dependence on the dependent variable. After a study of this PDE's traveling-wave solutions, we examine the corresponding properties...

We study the one-dimensional ballistic aggregation process in the continuum limit for one-sided Brownian initial velocity (i.e. particles merge when they collide and move freely between collisions, and in the continuum limit the initial velocity on the right side is a Brownian motion that...

A continuum version of the car-following full velocity difference model (FVDM) is developed using a series expansion of the headway in terms of the density. This continuum model obeys the equivalent stability criterion as its discrete counterpart, and the Burgers and Korteweg-de Vries equations...