Kinetic formulation for the Graetz–Nusselt ultra-parabolic equation

The well-posedness of the Cauchy problems for a quasilinear ultra-parabolic equation with partial diffusion and discontinuous convection coefficients is established for both entropy and kinetic formulations. The kinetic formulation is set up and solved by means of studying of the Young measures, associated with sequences of solutions of parabolic approximations. The kinetic equation appears as the linear scalar equation, which describes the evolution of the distribution functions of the Young measures in time and space, and which involves an additional ‘kinetic’ variable. The proofs of the principal results of the paper are based on the originally constructed renormalization procedure for the kinetic equation.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved