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Nonlinear stability of shock waves for viscous conservation laws

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Tai-Ping Liu

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1985; Volume 56, Number 328
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2329-3 (print); 978-1-4704-0741-4 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0328
MathSciNet review: 791863
MSC: Primary 35L65; Secondary 76L05

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Viscous shock waves
  • 3. Linear diffusion waves
  • 4. Nonlinear diffusion waves
  • 5. Compression and weak expansion
  • 6. Distribution of mass
  • 7. Linear hyperbolic waves
  • 8. Energy method
  • 9. Characteristic-energy method
  • 10. A priori estimates – Single modes
  • 11. A priori estimates – General modes
  • 12. Global existence and asymptotic behavior