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We consider a $L^2$-contraction of large viscous shock waves for the multi-dimensional scalar viscous conservation laws, up to a suitable shift. The shift function depends on the time and space variables. It solves a parabolic equation with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Moon-Jin Kang , Alexis Vasseur , Yi Wang

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Alexis F. Vasseur , Yi Wang , Jian Zhang

In this paper we study small shocks of 1D scalar viscous conservation laws with uniformly convex flux and nonlinear dissipation. We show that such shocks are L2 stable independent of the strength of the dissipation, even with large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Logan Stokols

We consider the $L^2$-contraction up to a shift for viscous shocks of scalar viscous conservation laws with strictly convex fluxes in one space dimension. In the case of a flux which is a small perturbation of the quadratic burgers flux, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Moon-Jin Kang , Alexis F. Vasseur

We study the $L^2$-type contraction property of large perturbations around shock waves of scalar viscous conservation laws with strictly convex fluxes in one space dimension. The contraction holds up to a shift, and it is measured by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Moon-Jin Kang

We consider a planar viscous shock for a scalar viscous conservation law with a strictly convex flux in multi-dimensional setting, where the transversal direction is periodic. We first show the contraction property for any solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Moon-Jin Kang , HyeonSeop Oh

In this paper, we study stability properties of solutions to scalar conservation laws with a class of non-convex fluxes. Using the theory of $a$-contraction with shifts, we show $L^2$-stability for shocks among a class of large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Jeffrey Cheng

The KdV-Burgers equation is a canonical model describing the interplay between nonlinearity, viscosity and dispersion, and it admits viscous-dispersive shocks as traveling wave solutions. In this paper, we establish an $L^2$-contraction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Geng Chen , Namhyun Eun , Moon-Jin Kang , Yannan Shen

We study extremal shocks of $1$-d hyperbolic systems of conservation laws which fail to be genuinely nonlinear. More specifically, we consider either $1$- or $n$-shocks in characteristic fields which are either concave-convex or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jeffrey Cheng

Extending our earlier work on Lax-type shocks of systems of conservation laws, we establish existence and stability of curved multidimensional shock fronts in the vanishing viscosity limit for general Lax- or undercompressive-type shock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olivier Gues , Guy Métivier , Mark Williams , Kevin Zumbrun

The stability of solutions under periodic perturbations for both inviscid and viscous conservation laws is an interesting and important problem. In this paper, a large-amplitude viscous shock under space-periodic perturbation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Feimin Huang , Qian Yuan

This paper investigates the large-time behavior of the viscous shock profile for the one-dimensional system of viscoelasticity, subject to initial perturbations that approach space-periodic functions at far fields. We specifically address…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Yu Mei , Peng Yuan

This paper studies the asymptotic stability of shock profiles and rarefaction waves under space-periodic perturbations for one-dimensional convex scalar viscous conservation laws. For the shock profile, we show that the solution approaches…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Zhouping Xin , Qian Yuan , Yuan Yuan

In this paper, we study the $a$-contraction property of small extremal shocks for 1-d systems of hyperbolic conservation laws endowed with a single convex entropy, when subjected to large perturbations. We show that the weight coefficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-23 William Golding , Sam Krupa , Alexis Vasseur

We prove the contraction property of any large solution perturbed from a viscous-dispersive shock wave of the Navier--Stokes--Korteweg (NSK) system. The contraction holds up to a dynamical shift, since the contraction is measured by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Namhyun Eun , Moon-Jin Kang , Jeongho Kim

In this paper we investigate the theory of $a$-contraction with shifts with the intention of extending it to intermediate families. The theory of $a$-contraction with shifts is used to prove orbital $L^2$ stability to shock solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Cooper Faile

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 consider a planar viscous shock of moderate strength for a scalar viscous conservation law in multi-D. We consider a strictly convex flux, as a small perturbation of the Burgers flux, along the normal direction to the shock front.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Moon-Jin Kang , HyeonSeop Oh

We prove the nonlinear stability of the planar viscous shock up to a time-dependent shift for the three-dimensional (3D) compressible Navier-Stokes equations under the generic perturbations, in particular, without zero mass conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Teng Wang , Yi Wang

We present a streamlined account of recent developments in the stability theory for planar viscous shock waves, with an emphasis on applications to physical models with ``real,'' or partial viscosity. The main result is the establishment of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kevin Zumbrun
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