We consider the initial value problem for some nonlinear hyperbolic and dispersive systems in one space dimension. Combining the classical energy method and the smoothing estimates for the Airy equation, we guarantee the time local well-posedness for this system. We also discuss the extension of our results to more general hyperbolic-dispersive system.

We present a way to deal with dispersion-dominated “shock-type” transition in the absence of completely integrable structure for the systems that one may characterize as strictly hyperbolic regularized by a small amount of dispersion. The analysis is performed by assuming that, the dispersive shock transition between two different constant states can be modelled by an expansion fan solution of ...