On Burgers-type Equations with Non-Monotonic Dissipative Fluxes

(with A. Kurganov and P. Rosenau)

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 51, 1998, 443-473

We study a formation of patterns in Burgers-type equations endowed with a bounded but non-monotonic dissipative fluxes; $u_{t} + f(u)_{x} = \pm \nu Q(u_{x})_{x}, \, Q(s) = s/(1+s^{2})$. Issues of uniqueness, existence and smoothness of a solution are addressed. Asymptotic regions of solution are discussed and in particular, classical, and non-classical traveling waves with an embedded sub-shock are constructed.


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