Telegraph systems on networks and port-Hamiltonians. I. Boundary conditions and well-posedness

Abstract

The paper is concerned with a system of linear hyperbolic differential equations on a network coupled through general transmission conditions of Kirchhoff's-type at the nodes. We discuss the reduction of such a problem to a system of 1-dimensional hyperbolic problems for the associated Riemann invariants and provide a semigroup-theoretic proof of its well-posedness. A number of examples showing the relation of our results with recent research is also provided.