Numerical testing of the stability of viscous shock waves

Numerical testing of the stability of viscous shock waves

A new theoretical Evans function condition is used as the basis of a numerical test of viscous shock wave stability. Accuracy of the method is demonstrated through comparison against exact solutions, a convergence study, and evaluation of approximate error equations. Robustness is demonstrated by applying the method to waves for which no current analytic results apply (highly nonlinear waves fr...

Stability and Dynamics of Viscous Shock Waves

We examine from a classical dynamical systems point of view stability, dynamics, and bifurcation of viscous shock waves and related solutions of nonlinear pde. The central object of our investigations is the Evans function: its meaning, numerical approximation, and behavior in various asymptotic limits.

Nonlinear Stability of Viscous Shock Waves

Nonlinear Stability of Shock Waves for Viscous Conservation Laws

where u = u{x,t) E R , the flux f(u) is a smooth n-vector-valued function, and the viscosity B(u) is a smooth n x n matrix. We are interested in the stability of traveling waves, the "viscous shock waves", for (1). It is shown that when the initial data are a perturbation of viscous shock waves, then the solution converges to these viscous shock waves, properly translated in space, in the unifo...

Pointwise Semigroup Methods and Stability of Viscous Shock Waves

Considered as rest points of ODE on L, stationary viscous shock waves present a critical case for which standard semigroup methods do not su ce to determine stability. More precisely, there is no spectral gap between stationary modes and essential spectrum of the linearized operator about the wave, a fact which precludes the usual analysis by decomposition into invariant subspaces. For this rea...