Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the viscous Burgers equation (Q2372376)

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the viscous Burgers equation by presenting a new asymptotic approximate solution. This approximate solution, called a diffusion wave approximate solution to the viscous Burgers equation of \(k\)-th order, is expanded in terms of the initial moments up to \(k\)-th order. Moreover, the spatial and time shifts are introduced into the leading order term to capture precisely the effect of the initial data on the long-time behavior of the actual solution. We also show the optimal convergence order in \(L^p\)-norm, \(1\leq p\leq \infty\), of the diffusion wave approximate solution of \(k\)-th order. These results allow us to obtain the convergence of any higher order in \(L^p\)-norm by taking such a diffusion wave approximate solution with order \(k\) large enough.