Related papers: Stability of hydraulic shock profiles
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…
Extending work of Yang-Zumbrun for the hydrodynamically stable case of Froude number F < 2, we categorize completely the existence and convective stability of hydraulic shock profiles of the Saint Venant equations of inclined thin-film…
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)…
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…
We give the first proof of nonlinear stability for smooth shock profiles of second-order dissipative hyperbolic-hyperbolic systems under the assumption of spectral stability, showing stability of smooth small-amplitude profiles in…
Stability of inviscid shear shallow water flows with free surface is studied in the framework of the Benney equations. This is done by investigating the generalized hyperbolicity of the integrodifferential Benney system of equations. It is…
Extending results of Oh--Zumbrun and Johnson--Zumbrun for parabolic conservation laws, we show that spectral stability implies nonlinear stability for spatially periodic viscous roll wave solutions of the one-dimensional St. Venant…
Extending previous work with Lattanzio and Mascia on the scalar (in fluid-dynamical variables) Hamer model for a radiative gas, we show nonlinear orbital asymptotic stability of small-amplitude shock profiles of general systems of coupled…
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…
In this paper, we are concerned with the large time behavior of viscous shock wave for the convective porous-media equation with degenerate viscosity. We get the regularity of the solution for general initial data and prove the shock wave…
We investigate existence and stability of viscoelastic shock profiles for a class of planar models including the incompressible shear case studied by Antman and Malek-Madani. We establish that the resulting equations fall into the class of…
Two-dimensional free-surface flow over localised topography is examined with the emphasis on the stability of hydraulic-fall solutions. A Gaussian topography profile is assumed with a positive or negative amplitude modelling a bump or a…
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…
We develop a theory based on relative entropy to show the uniqueness and L^2 stability (up to a translation) of extremal entropic Rankine-Hugoniot discontinuities for systems of conservation laws (typically 1-shocks, n-shocks, 1-contact…
By the use of a new vertical estimate introduced by the authors in the context of relaxation shocks for shallow water flow, we both simplify and extend the basic $L^1\cap H^3$ stability results of Mascia and Zumbrun for viscous shock waves,…
Using a simplified pointwise iteration scheme, we establish nonlinear phase-asymptotic orbital stability of large-amplitude Lax, undercompressive, overcompressive, and mixed under--overcompressive type shock profiles of strictly parabolic…
We investigate $L^2$-contraction and time-asymptotic stability of large shock for scalar viscous conservation laws with polynomial flux. For the strictly convex flux $f(u)=u^p $ with $2\leq p \leq 4$, we can prove $L^2$-contraction and…
We show that a relative entropy condition recently shown by Leger and Vasseur to imply uniqueness and stable $L^2$ dependence on initial data of Lax 1- or $n$-shock solutions of an $n\times n$ system of hyperbolic conservation laws with…
Motivated by the study of conditional stability of traveling waves, we give an elementary $H^2$ center stable manifold construction for quasilinear parabolic PDE, sidestepping apparently delicate regularity issues by the combination of a…
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…