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Extending results of Humpherys-Lyng-Zumbrun in the one-dimensional case, we use a combination of asymptotic ODE estimates and numerical Evans-function computations to examine the multidimensional stability of planar Navier--Stokes shocks…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

By a combination of asymptotic ODE estimates and numerical Evans function calculations, we establish stability of viscous shock solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier--Stokes equations with $\gamma$-law pressure (i) in the limit as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Humpherys , Olivier Laffite , Kevin Zumbrun

It has long been a standard practice to neglect diffusive effects in stability analyses of detonation waves. Here, with the principal aim of quantifying the impact of these oft-neglected effects on the stability characteristics of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper, we examine the stability problem for viscous shock solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier--Stokes equations, or $p$-system with real viscosity. We first revisit the work of Matsumura and Nishihara, extending the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Keith Rudd , Kevin Zumbrun

Building on Evans function techniques developed to study the stability of viscous shocks, we examine the stability of viscous strong detonation wave solutions of the reacting Navier-Stokes equations. The primary result, following the work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We establish one-dimensional spectral stability of small amplitude viscous and relaxation shock profiles using Evans function techniques to perform a series of reductions and normal forms to reduce to the case of the scalar Burgers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ramon Plaza , Kevin Zumbrun

We investigate the spectral stability of small-amplitude shock profiles for the one-dimensional isothermal Navier-Stokes-Poisson system, which describes ion dynamics in a collision-dominated plasma. Specifically, we establish (i) bounds on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Wanyong Shim

Using analytical and numerical Evans-function techniques, we examine the spectral stability of strong-detonation-wave solutions of Majda's scalar model for a reacting gas mixture with an Arrhenius-type ignition function. We introduce an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

Generalizing similar results for viscous shock and relaxation waves, we establish sharp pointwise Green function bounds and linearized and nonlinear stability for traveling wave solutions of an abstract viscous combustion model including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregory Lyng , Mohammadreza Raoofi , Benjamin Texier , Kevin Zumbrun

Frequently encountered in nature, internal solitary waves in stratified fluids are well-observed and well-studied from the experimental, the theoretical, and the numerical perspective. From the mathematical point of view, these waves are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Andreas Klaiber

We study existence and stability of steady solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a finite interval with non characteristic boundary conditions, for general not necessarily small-amplitude data. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Benjamin Melinand , Kevin Zumbrun

Building on work of Barker, Humpherys, Lafitte, Rudd, and Zumbrun in the shock wave case, we study stability of compressive, or "shock-like", boundary layers of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with gamma-law pressure by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Nicola Costanzino , Jeffrey Humpherys , Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

We carry out the first rigorous numerical proof based on Evans function computations of stability of viscous shock profiles, for the system of isentropic gas dynamics with monatomic equation of state. We treat a selection of shock strengths…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Blake Barker , Kevin Zumbrun

For a general class of hyperbolic-parabolic systems including the compressible Navier-Stokes and compressible MHD equations, we prove existence and stability of noncharacteristic viscous boundary layers for a variety of boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Olivier Gues , Guy Metivier , Mark Williams , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper we investigate spectral stability of traveling wave solutions to 1-$D$ quantum hydrodynamics system with nonlinear viscosity in the $(\rho,u)$, that is, density and velocity, variables. We derive a sufficient condition for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Corrado Lattanzio , Delyan Zhelyazov

The Evans function is an analytic function that encodes information about the intersection of certain subspaces in ODE boundary value problems. As such it is a useful tool for computing the spectrum of boundary value problems arising in the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 George Bayliss , Jared C. Bronski

The Evans function has become a standard tool in the mathematical study of nonlinear wave stability. In particular, computation of its zero set gives a convenient numerical method for determining the point spectrum of the associated linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider the stability problem for shock layers in Slemrod's model of an isentropic gas with capillarity. We show that these traveling waves are monotone in the weak capillarity case, and become highly oscillatory as the capillarity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Humpherys

In the present paper, it is shown that the large amplitude viscous shock wave is nonlinearly stable for isentropic Navier-Stokes equations, in which the pressure could be general and includes $\gamma$-law, and the viscosity coefficient is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Lin He , Feimin Huang

We carry out a systematic analytical and numerical study of spectral stability of discontinuous roll wave solutions of the inviscid Saint Venant equations, based on a periodic Evans-Lopatinski determinant analogous to the periodic Evans…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Zhao Yang , Kevin Zumbrun
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