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Stability properties and dynamics of solutions to viscous conservation laws with mean curvature operator

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In this paper we study the long time dynamics of the solutions to an initial-boundary value problem for a scalar conservation law with a saturating nonlinear diffusion. After discussing the existence of a unique stationary solution and its asymptotic stability, we focus our attention on the phenomenon of metastability, whereby the time-dependent solution develops into a layered function in a relatively short time and subsequently approaches a steady state in a very long time interval. Numerical simulations illustrate the results.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell’Informazione e Matematica, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Raffaele Folino

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Maurizio Garrione

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia Mestre, Italy

    Marta Strani

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Folino, R., Garrione, M. & Strani, M. Stability properties and dynamics of solutions to viscous conservation laws with mean curvature operator. J. Evol. Equ. 20, 517–551 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00028-019-00528-2

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