Existence, bifurcation, and stability of profiles for classical and non-classical shock waves (Q4544267)

The paper is a survey of the authors' recent results on viscous shock waves in generally nonstrictly hyperbolic and nonconvex systems of conservation laws of the form \(g(u)_t+f(u)_x=0\). Particular attention is paid to the physical model of magnetohydrodynamics. Firstly the authors give classification of inviscid shock waves and recall how viscous profiles for small-amplitude shocks are constructed via center manifold analysis of the corresponding system of ODEs. Then they investigate large-amplitude shock waves and give bifurcation analysis for the profiles in the particular case of magnetohydrodynamics. The authors also describe and apply the method of numerical study of heteroclinic bifurcation in magnetohydrodynamics. Finally, they discuss an analytical result on stability of small-amplitude viscous Laxian shock waves. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0968.00013].