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The effect of viscosity and thermal conduction on the acoustics in a shear layer above an impedance wall is investigated numerically and asymptotically by solving the compressible linearised Navier-Stokes equations. It is found that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-06 Doran Khamis , Edward James Brambley

We study viscous-dispersive shock waves with infinite oscillations of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation. First, we establish detail structures of the shock waves, including the rates at which the local extrema converge to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Geng Chen , Namhyun Eun , Moon-Jin Kang , Yannan Shen

This paper is concerned with the inflow problem for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. For such a problem, F. M. Huang, A. Matsumura and X. D. Shi showed that there exists viscous shock wave solution to the inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Dongfen Bian , Lili Fan , Lin He , Huijiang Zhao

We present a numerical method for computing the pure-point spectrum associated with the linear stability of multi-dimensional travelling fronts to parabolic nonlinear systems. Our method is based on the Evans function shooting approach.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Veerle Ledoux , Simon J. A. Malham , Jitse Niesen , Vera Thümmler

This paper is concerned with nonlinear stability of viscous contact discontinuity to a free boundary problem for the one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in half space $[0,\infty)$. For the case when the local stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Tingting Zheng

The Evans function is a powerful tool for the stability analysis of viscous shock profiles; zeros of this function carry stability information. In the one-dimensional case, it is typical to compute the Evans function using Goodman's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We show that transition to longitudinal instability of strong detonation solutions of reactive compressible Navier--Stokes equations is generically associated with Hopf bifurcation to nearby time-periodic "galloping", or "pulsating",…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Benjamin Texier , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

A large class of multidimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations admit localized nonradial standing wave solutions that carry nonzero intrinsic angular momentum. Here we provide evidence that certain of these spinning excitations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Pego , Henry A. Warchall

We treat the 1D shock tube problem, establishing existence of steady solutions of full (nonisentropic) polytropic gas dynamics with arbitrary noncharacteristic data. We present also numerical experiments indicating uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Blake Barker , Benjamin Melinand , Kevin Zumbrun

In the present work the second Stokes problem about behaviour of the rarefied gas filling half-space is formulated. A plane limiting half-space makes harmonious fluctuations with variable amplitude in the plane. The amplitude changes on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-16 A. V. Latyshev , E. A. Bedrikova

We study the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a channel $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,H)$ with small viscosity $\varepsilon\ll1$, an $\varepsilon$-Navier slip condition on the horizontal walls, and a viscous inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yan Guo , Zhuolun Yang

This paper shows that for the three-dimensional compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations, the planar viscous shocks are time-asymptotically stable to suitably small initial perturbations with zero masses. In particular, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Qian Yuan

The second Stokes problem about behaviour of the rarefied gas filling half-space is formulated. A plane, limiting half-space, makes harmonious oscillations in the plane. The kinetic equation with modelling integral of collisions in the form…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 V. A. Akimova , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We study the large-time behavior of solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for a viscous and heat-conducting ideal polytropic gas in the one-dimensional half-space. A rarefaction wave and its superposition with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Ling Wan , Tao Wang , Huijiang Zhao

In this paper, a viscous shock wave under space-periodic perturbation of 1-D isentropic Navier-Stokes system in the half space is investigated. It is shown that if the initial periodic perturbation around the viscous shock wave is small,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Lin Chang , Lin He , Jin Ma

Strong discontinuities in solutions of the gas dynamic equations under isentropic conditions, i.e., with continuity of entropy at the discontinuity, are examined. Solutions for a standard shock wave with continuity of energy at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , S. G. Moiseenko

We consider the numerical evaluation of the Evans function, a Wronskian-like determinant that arises in the study of the stability of travelling waves. Constructing the Evans function involves matching the solutions of a linear ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-12 Simon Malham , Jitse Niesen

We investigate the global stability of large solutions to the compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional (3D) bounded domain with Navier-slip boundary conditions. It is shown that the strong solutions converge to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Yang Liu , Guochun Wu , Xin Zhong

In this paper, we study the asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves for the compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity. First, a weak solution around a rarefaction wave to the Cauchy problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Quansen Jiu , Yi Wang , Zhouping Xin