Spectral Stability of Small-Amplitude Viscous Shock Waves in Several Space Dimensions |
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Authors: | Heinrich Freistühler Peter Szmolyan |
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Institution: | 1. Fachbereich Mathematik, Universit?t Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany 2. Institut für Analysis und Scientific Computing, Technische Universit?t Wien, 1040, Vienna, Austria
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Abstract: | A planar viscous shock profile of a hyperbolic–parabolic system of conservation laws is a steady solution in a moving coordinate
frame. The asymptotic stability of viscous profiles and the related vanishing-viscosity limit are delicate questions already
in the well understood case of one space dimension and even more so in the case of several space dimensions. It is a natural
idea to study the stability of viscous profiles by analyzing the spectrum of the linearization about the profile. The Evans
function method provides a geometric dynamical-systems framework to study the eigenvalue problem. In this approach eigenvalues
correspond to zeros of an essentially analytic function E(rl,rw){\mathcal{E}(\rho\lambda,\rho\omega)} which detects nontrivial intersections of the so-called stable and unstable spaces, that is, spaces of solutions that decay
on one (“−∞”) or the other side (“ + ∞”) of the shock wave, respectively. In a series of pioneering papers, Kevin Zumbrun
and collaborators have established in various contexts that spectral stability, that is, the non-vanishing of E(rl,rw){\mathcal{E}(\rho\lambda,\rho\omega)} and the non-vanishing of the Lopatinski–Kreiss–Majda function Δ(λ,ω), imply nonlinear stability of viscous shock profiles in several space dimensions. In this paper we show that these conditions
hold true for small amplitude extreme shocks under natural assumptions. This is done by exploiting the slow-fast nature of
the small-amplitude limit, which was used in a previous paper by the authors to prove spectral stability of small-amplitude
shock waves in one space dimension. Geometric singular perturbation methods are applied to decompose the stable and unstable
spaces into subbundles with good control over their limiting behavior. Three qualitatively different regimes are distinguished
that relate the small strength e{\epsilon} of the shock wave to appropriate ranges of values of the spectral parameters (ρλ, ρ
ω). Various rescalings are used to overcome apparent degeneracies in the problem caused by loss of hyperbolicity or lack of
transversality. |
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