White noise perturbation of the viscous shock fronts of the Burgers equation (Q1924118)

The authors are interested in the front dynamics of the solutions of the initial value problem of the Burgers equation, the initial data being the viscous shock plus a white noise perturbation. They first write down explicitly the solution with Cole-Hopf formula and identify the different features of the various terms as time tends to infinity. They prove that in the sense of distribution, the solutions propagate with the same speed as the unperturbed front. The front location is random and satisfies a central limit theorem with the variance proportional to the time \(t\), as \(t\) goes to infinity. Moreover the authors describe the front width, which is \(O(1)\) for large time.