Harihara Maharna

Harihara Maharna

Applied Mathematics PhD Student at the University of Notre Dame

Differential Equations

Project, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, 2023

  • Guide: Dr. Anupam Pal Choudhury, School of Mathematics, NISER Bhubaneswar, India About the project: This work was done during my Summer Research Intern position at NISER Bhubaneswar.
  • In this project, I studied scalar conservation laws and how they model physical phenomena with a particular emphasis on traffic dynamics.
  • I learned about weak (or integral) solutions, Rankine-Hugoniot condition, and entropy conditions.