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Travelling wave solutions for a balance law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

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

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 127 , Issue 3 , 1997 , pp. 567 - 593
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1997

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