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Travelling wave solutions for a balance law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

C. Mascia
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica ‘G. Castelnuovo’, Università ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy, e-mail: mascia@mat.uniromal.it

Abstract

We study entropy travelling wave solutions for first-order hyperbolic balance laws. Results concerning existence, regularity and asymptotic stability of such solutions are proved for convex fluxes and source terms with simple isolated zeros.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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