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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

A novel approach for the stabilization of the Spectral-Volume (SV) method based on Dafermos' entropy rate criterion is presented. The method is an adaption of an already existing approach for the stabilization of the Discontinuous-Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Lena Schadt

The paper is devoted to numerical study of stability of nonlinear localized modes ("gap solitons") for the spatially one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation (1D GPE) with periodic potential and repulsive interparticle interactions. We use…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-12-28 Pavel P. Kizin , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Georgy L. Alfimov

We take advantage of the approximation of the stretched exponential function with a general Prony series in glass relaxation to give some results about the spectral analysis for the equation of viscoelasticity. Moreover, in the case of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Paola Loreti , Daniela Sforza

We define a notion of a viscous shock solution of the stochastic Burgers equation that connects "top" and "bottom" spatially stationary solutions of the same equation. Such shocks generally travel in space, but we show that they admit…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Alexander Dunlap , Lenya Ryzhik

For scalar conservation laws, we prove that spectrally stable stationary Lax discrete shock profiles are nonlinearly stable in some polynomially-weighted $\ell^1$ and $\ell^\infty$ spaces. In comparison with several previous nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Lucas Coeuret

The goal of this paper is to prove the existence and stability of shocks for viscous scalar conservation laws with space periodic flux, in the multi-dimensional case. Such a result had been proved by the first author in one space dimension,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Moon-Jin Kang

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

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

In this paper we study existence and stability of shock profiles for a 1-D compressible Euler system in the context of Quantum Hydrodynamic models. The dispersive term is originated by the quantum effects described through the Bohm…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Corrado Lattanzio , Pierangelo Marcati , Delyan Zhelyazov

Reaction-nonlinear diffusion partial differential equations can exhibit shock-fronted travelling wave solutions. Prior work by Yi et. al. (2021) has demonstrated the existence of such waves for two classes of regularisations, including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell

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 prove the uniqueness of solutions to the Dafermos regularization viscous wave fan profiles for Riemann solutions of scalar hyperbolic conservation laws. We emphasize that our results are not restricted to the small self-similar viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Christos Sourdis

In this paper, we study the asymptotic stability of viscous shock profile for the Burgers equation $u_t +f(u)_x = (\frac{u_{x}}{u^{1-m}})_x$ on the half-space $(0,+\infty)$, subject to the boundary conditions $u|_{x=0}=u_->0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Xiaowen Li , Ming Mei

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a linear periodic potential and a nonlinearity coefficient $\Gamma$ with a discontinuity supports stationary localized solitary waves with frequencies inside spectral gaps, so called surface gap…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-01 Elizabeth Blank , Tomáš Dohnal

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

The spectral problem associated with the linearization about solitary waves of spinor systems or optical coupled mode equations supporting gap solitons is formulated in terms of the Evans function, a complex analytic function whose zeros…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianne Derks , Georg A. Gottwald

Motivated by radiation hydrodynamics, we analyse a 2x2 system consisting of a one-dimensional viscous conservation law with strictly convex flux -- the viscous Burgers' equation being a paradigmatic example -- coupled with an elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Giada Cianfarani Carnevale , Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia

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

We study the long-time behavior of scalar viscous conservation laws via the structure of $\omega$-limit sets. We show that $\omega$-limit sets always contain constants or shocks by establishing convergence to shocks for arbitrary monotone…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Thierry Gallay , Arnd Scheel