An identity is derived which yields a correspondence between symmetries and conservation laws for self-adjoint differential equations. This identity does not rely on use of a Lagrangian as needed to obtain conservation laws by Noether’s theorem. Moreover, unlike Noether’s theorem, which can only generate conservation laws from local symmetries, the derived identity generates conservation laws f...

This paper presents recent work on connections between symmetries and conservation laws. After reviewing Noether’s theorem and its limitations, we present the Direct Construction Method to show how to find directly the conservation laws for any given system of differential equations. This method yields the multipliers for conservation laws as well as an integral formula for corresponding conser...

In this paper, we present new conservation laws of linear elasticity which have been discovered. These newly discovered conservation laws are expressed solely in terms of the Cauchy stress tensor, and they are genuine, non-trivial conservation laws that are intrinsically different from the displacement conservation laws previously known. They represent the variational symmetry conditions of com...

In this paper we consider generalization of procedure of construction of potential systems for systems of partial differential equations with multidimensional spaces of conservation laws. More precisely, for construction of potential systems in cases when dimension of the space of local conservation laws is greater than one, instead of using only basis conservation laws we use their arbitrary l...

The use of the symbolic software package GeM for Maple is illustrated with examples of computation of nonlocal symmetries and nonlocal conservation laws of nonlinear partial differential equations. In the considered examples, the nonlocal symmetries and conservation laws arise as local symmetries and conservation laws of potential systems. FullMaple codewith detailed comments is presented. Exam...

In studies of interfaces with dynamic chemical composition, bulk and interfacial quantities are often coupled via surface conservation laws of excess surface quantities. While this approach is easily justified for microscopically sharp interfaces, its applicability in the context of microscopically diffuse interfaces is less theoretically well-established. Furthermore, surface conservation laws...

This paper discusses a connection between scalar convex conservation laws and Pontryagin’s minimum principle. For flux functions for which an associated optimal control problem can be found, a minimum value solution of the conservation law is proposed. For scalar space-independent convex conservation laws such a control problem exists and the minimum value solution of the conservation law is eq...

Historically it happen so that in branches of physics connected with field theory and of physics of material systems (continuous media) the concept of ”conservation laws” has a different meaning. In field theory ”conservation laws” are those that claim the existence of conservative physical quantities or objects. These are conservation laws for physical fields. In contrast to that in physics (a...

Viscous conservation laws are the basic models for the dissipative phenomena. We aim at a systematic presentation of the basic ideas for the quantitative study of the nonlinear waves for viscous conservation laws. The present paper concentrates on the scalar laws; an upcoming Part II will deal with the systems. The basic ideas for scalar viscous conservation laws originated from two sources: th...