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Extending previous results of Oh--Zumbrun and Johnson--Zumbrun, we show that spectral stability implies linearized and nonlinear stability of spatially periodic traveling-wave solutions of viscous systems of conservation laws for systems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

We study by a combination of numerical and analytical Evans function techniques the stability of solitary wave solutions of the St. Venant equations for viscous shallow-water flow down an incline, and related models. Our main result is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

By reduction to a generalized Sturm Liouville problem, we establish spectral stability of hydraulic shock profiles of the Saint-Venant equations for inclined shallow-water flow, over the full parameter range of their existence, for both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Alim Sukhtayev , Zhao Yang , Kevin Zumbrun

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

Substantially extending previous results of the authors for smooth solutions in the viscous case, we develop linear damping estimates for periodic roll-wave solutions of the inviscid Saint-Venant equations and related systems of hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-03 L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

We develop a stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of general parabolic systems, possibly including conservation laws. In particular, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption and prove that it implies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 L. Miguel Rodrigues , Aric Wheeler

A technical obstruction preventing the conclusion of nonlinear stability of large-Froude number roll waves of the St. Venant equations for inclined thin film flow is the "slope condition" of Johnson-Noble-Zumbrun, used to obtain pointwise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Luis Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

Extending our previous work in the strictly parabolic case, we show that a linearly unstable Lax-type viscous shock solution of a general quasilinear hyperbolic--parabolic system of conservation laws possesses a translation-invariant center…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Kevin Zumbrun

In this note, we report on recent findings concerning the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic systems of balance laws, as applied to the St. Venant equations of shallow water flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

Extending results of Oh and Zumbrun in dimensions $d\ge 3$, we establish nonlinear stability and asymptotic behavior of spatially-periodic traveling-wave solutions of viscous systems of conservation laws in critical dimensions $d=1,2$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

Continuing a line of investigation initiated by Texier and Zumbrun on dynamics of viscous shock and detonation waves, we show that a linearly unstable Lax-type viscous shock solution of a semilinear strictly parabolic system of conservation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-10 Kevin Zumbrun

Extending to systems of hyperbolic--parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for strictly parabolic systems, we show for viscous shock profiles of arbitrary amplitude and type that necessary spectral (Evans function)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohammadreza Raoofi , Kevin Zumbrun

In this note, we announce a general result resolving the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability, or stability with respect to localized perturbations, of periodic traveling-wave solutions of the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-22 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

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

Combining pointwise Green's function bounds obtained in a companion paper [MZ.2] with earlier, spectral stability results obtained in [HuZ], we establish nonlinear orbital stability of small amplitude viscous shock profiles for the class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Corrado Mascia , Kevin Zumbrun

Using spatial domain techniques developed by the authors and Myunghyun Oh in the context of parabolic conservation laws, we establish under a natural set of spectral stability conditions nonlinear asymptotic stability with decay at Gaussian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

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

We apply spectral stability theory to investigate nonlinear gravity waves in the atmosphere. These waves are determined by modulation equations that result from Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin theory. First, we establish that plane waves, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-25 Mark Schlutow , Erik Wahlén , Philipp Birken

This paper shows nonlinear stability of homogeneous states in second-order hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations that model the dynamics of dissipative relativistic fluids, by checking a dissipativity criterion formulated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Heinrich Freistuhler , Matthias Sroczinski

Roll solutions at the zigzag boundary, typically selected by patterns and defects in numerical simulations, are shown to be nonlinearly stable. This result also serves as an example that linear decay weaker than the classical diffusive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-13 Abhijit Chowdhary , Mason Haberle , William Ofori-atta , Qiliang Wu
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