The Perturbed Riemann Problem for a Balance Law

Corrado Mascia (1) , Carlo Sinestrari (2)

1 Sapienza University of Rome - Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo" [Roma I]
2 DIPMAT - Dipartimento di Matematica [Roma II]

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the bounded solutions of a hyperbolic conservation law with source term where the flux is convex and the source term has simple zeros. We assume that the initial value coincides outside a compact set with an initial value of Riemann type. We prove that the solutions converge in general to a sequence of traveling waves delimited by two shock waves. Some of the traveling waves are smooth and connect two consecutive zeros of the source term, while the remaining are discontinuous and oscillate around an unstable zero of the source. However, we prove that for a generic class of initial data the asymptotic profile contains only traveling waves of the first type. We also analyze the rate of convergence of the solutions to the asymptotic profile.

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Corrado Mascia, Carlo Sinestrari. The Perturbed Riemann Problem for a Balance Law. Advances in Differential Equations, 1997, 2 (5), pp.779-810. ⟨hal-00903225⟩