Stability of viscous shocks in isentropic gas dynamics (Q1006864)

The authors consider the stability problem for viscous shock solutions of the isentropic compressible adiabatic Navier-Stokes equations in one spatial dimension. Using energy estimates, they study the spectral stability of shocks depending on their strength. Calculating numerically the Evans function and finite-difference method, the authors show that shocks are spectrally stable up to rather high values, and suggest that they are stable independently on amplitude.