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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0734.00028.] In this paper the author considers steady solutions of viscous conservation laws with interior shock layers, e.g. Burger's equations \(u_ t+(1/2)(u^ 2)_ x=\varepsilon u_{xx}\), \(-1\leq x\leq +1\), \(t>0\), together with boundary and initial conditions \(u(x,0)=F(x)\), \(u(-1,t)=1\), \(u(1,t)=1\). For this problem there is a unique steady solution with an interior shock layer at \(x=0\). In computations however a shock quickly forms but in the ``wrong'' place. It then moves slowly to the ``right'' location at \(x=0\). To understand this behavior the author formulates an eigenvalue problem to capture the motion of the interior layers. Similar ideas are applied to the system of gas dynamic equations for flow in a slender nozzle.