Entropy and global existence for hyperbolic balance laws

WA Yong - Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2004 - Springer
This paper presents a general result on the existence of global smooth solutions to
hyperbolic systems of balance laws in several space variables. We propose an entropy …

Stability of large-amplitude shock waves of compressible Navier–Stokes equations

K Zumbrun, HK Jenssen, G Lyng - Handbook of mathematical fluid …, 2005 - Elsevier
We summarize recent progress on one-dimensional and multidimensional stability of
viscous shock wave solutions of compressible Navier–Stokes equations and related …

Stability of large-amplitude viscous shock profiles of hyperbolic-parabolic systems

C Mascia, K Zumbrun - Archive for rational mechanics and analysis, 2004 - Springer
We establish nonlinear L 1∩ H 3→ L p orbital stability, 2≦ p≤∞, with sharp rates of decay,
of large-amplitude Lax-type shock profiles for a class of symmetric hyperbolic-parabolic …

Pointwise Green function bounds for shock profiles of systems with real viscosity

C Mascia, K Zumbrun - Archive for rational mechanics and analysis, 2003 - Springer
Following the pointwise semigroup approach of [ZH, MZ. 1], we establish sharp pointwise
Green function bounds and consequent linearized stability for viscous shock profiles of …

An interesting class of partial differential equations

WA Yong - Journal of mathematical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an observation that under reasonable conditions, many partial
differential equations from mathematical physics possess three structural properties. One of …

An Evans function approach to spectral stability of small-amplitude shock profiles

R Plaza, K Zumbrun - arXiv preprint math/0205180, 2002 - arxiv.org
We establish one-dimensional spectral stability of small amplitude viscous and relaxation
shock profiles using Evans function techniques to perform a series of reductions and normal …

Existence and stability of nonmonotone hydraulic shocks for the Saint Venant equations of inclined thin-film flow

G Faye, LM Rodrigues, Z Yang, K Zumbrun - Archive for Rational …, 2024 - Springer
Extending the work of Yang–Zumbrun for the hydrodynamically stable case of Froude
number F< 2, we categorize completely the existence and convective stability of hydraulic …

Stability of traveling waves for reaction-diffusion equations with multiplicative noise

CHS Hamster, HJ Hupkes - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2019 - SIAM
We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small
multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable traveling wave solutions to the …

Stability of small‐amplitude shock profiles of symmetric hyperbolic‐parabolic systems

C Mascia, K Zumbrun - … on Pure and Applied Mathematics: A …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Combining pointwise Green's function bounds obtained in a companion paper [36] with
earlier, spectral stability results obtained in [16], we establish nonlinear orbital stability of …

Formation of singularities in solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic systems with general sources

J Bärlin - Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
We consider nonlinear hyperbolic systems with a general source and prove that for
appropriately chosen smooth initial data the lifespan of the associated C 1-solution u cannot …