Vreman Stabilization for Nonlinear Greenshield’s Model for Traffic Flow
摘要
This report investigates a stabilization method for the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) model which utilizes the continuity equation to model the behavior of traffic. The LWR equations are combined with the Greenshield’s model for velocity resulting in a first order nonlinear PDE. It is known that the usual unstabilized finite element method (FEM) contains spurious oscillations for non-smooth solutions for this nonlinear PDE. Herein, Vreman stabilization, that involves filtering and deconvolution, is implemented for treatment of the shocks and the affects of higher order deconvolution are investigated.