A remark on the stability of viscous shock-waves

• Recently, Szepessy and Xin gave a new proof of stability of viscous shock waves. A curious aspect of their argument is a possible disturbance of zero mass, but log(t)t-1/2 amplitude in the vicinity of the shock wave. This would represent a previously unobserved phenomenon. However, only an upper bound is established in their proof. Here, we present an example of a system for which this phenomenon can be verified by explicit calculation. The disturbance near the shock is shown to be precisely of order t-1/2 in amplitude.

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STABILITY

VISCOUS CONSERVATION LAWS

SHOCK WAVES

DIFFUSION WAVES

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