Department of Mathematics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169, Japan ; School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University Tokyo, 169-50, Japan
Abstract:
This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution toward the planar rarefaction wave connecting and for the scalar viscous conservation law in two space dimensions. We assume that the initial data tends to constant states as , respectively. Then, the convergence rate to of the solution is investigated without the smallness conditions of and the initial disturbance. The proof is given by elementary -energy method.