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In this article we study the spectral, linear and nonlinear stability of stationary shock profile solutions to the Lax-Wendroff scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws. We first clarify the spectral stability of such solutions depending on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Jean-François Coulombel , Grégory Faye

The system describing the dynamics of a compressible isentropic fluid exhibiting viscosity and internal capillarity in one space dimension and in Lagrangian coordinates, is considered. It is assumed that the viscosity and the capillarity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 R. Folino , C. Lattanzio , R. G. Plaza

This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the outflow problem of full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half line. This is one of the series of papers by the authors on the stability of nonlinear waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Yazhou Chen , Hakho Hong , Xiaoding Shi

We generalize the periodic Evans function approach recently used to study the spectral stability of Stokes wave and gravity-capillary (including Wilton ripples) in water of finite depth to study spectral stability of Stokes waves in water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Zhao Yang

We study the response of an infinite system of point particles on the line initially at rest on the instantaneous release of energy in a localized region. We make a detailed comparison of the hydrodynamic variables predicted by Euler…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-19 Santhosh Ganapa , Subhadip Chakraborti , P. L. Krapivsky , Abhishek Dhar

In this paper, we investigate and prove the nonlinear stability of viscous shock wave solutions of a scalar viscous conservation law, using the methods developed for general systems of conservation laws by Howard, Mascia, Zumbrun and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Yingwei Li

We make rigorous spectral stability analysis for non-resonant capillary-gravity waves as well as resonant Wilton ripples of sufficiently small amplitude. Our analysis is based on a periodic Evans function approach, developed recently by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhao Yang

The nonlinear asymptotic stability of Lane-Emden solutions is proved in this paper for spherically symmetric motions of viscous gaseous stars with the density dependent shear and bulk viscosities which vanish at the vacuum, when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Tao Luo , Zhouping Xin , Huihui Zeng

We study nonlinear time-asymptotic stability of small--amplitude planar Lax shocks in a model consisting of a system of multi--dimensional conservation laws coupled with an elliptic system. Such a model can be found in context of dynamics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-18 Toan Nguyen

The temperature of the interstellar medium (ISM) is governed by several physical process, among which radiative cooling, external UV/cosmic ray heating, and the mechanical work by compression and expansion. In regimes where the dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-19 Yueh-Ning Lee

A spectral method using associated Legendre functions with algebraic mapping is developed for a linear stability analysis of wake vortices. These functions serve as Galerkin basis functions, capturing correct analyticity and boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-20 Sangjoon Lee , Philip S. Marcus

This paper proves the nonlinear asymptotic stability of the Lane-Emden solutions for spherically symmetric motions of viscous gaseous stars if the adiabatic constant $\gamma$ lies in the stability range $(4/3, 2)$. It is shown that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Tao Luo , Zhouping Xin , Huihui Zeng

We prove existence and asymptotic stability of the stationary solution for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for isentropic gas dynamics with a density dependent diffusion in a bounded interval. We present the necessary conditions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Marta Strani

We present a new method for analyzing the global stability of the Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor self-similar solutions, describing the asymptotic behavior of spherical decelerating shock waves, expanding into ideal gas with density \propto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman , Dov Shvarts

In this paper, we consider the large time behavior of planar shock wave for 3-D compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations (CNS) in half space. Providing the strength of the shock wave and initial perturbations are small, we proved the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Lin Chang , Lingjun Liu , Lingda Xu

We establish long-time stability of multi-dimensional noncharacteristic boundary layers of a class of hyperbolic--parabolic systems including the compressible Navier--Stokes equations with inflow [outflow] boundary conditions, under the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-08-01 Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Tingting Zheng

Localized patterns are spatially confined structures that arise in lattice dynamical systems and play an important role in physics, biology, and materials science. While their existence and bifurcation structure are well-understood, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-14 Bocheng Ruan , Jack M. Hughes , Jason J. Bramburger

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 model integral of collisions in the form $…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-07 V. A. Akimova , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We investigate exact solutions for isothermal shock problems in different one-dimensional geometries. These solutions are given as analytical expressions if possible, or are computed using standard numerical methods for solving ordinary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-20 Stephan C. Deschner , Tobias F. Illenseer , Wolfgang J. Duschl