On nonlinear conservation laws with a nonlocal diffusion term (Q627689)

The aim of this paper is to study one-dimensional conservation laws of the form \(\partial _t u + \partial _x f(u) =\partial _x {\mathcal D}^{\alpha} u\) with a nonlocal diffusion term. The authors analyse the local and global solvability of the Cauchy problem for this equation as well as the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions. In particular, they show that smooth travelling wave solutions exist and are asymptotically stable. These waves are shock profiles satisfying the standard entropy conditions like those derived from the standard parabolic regularisation with \({\mathcal D}^{\alpha}\) replaced by \(\partial _x\). To show the asymptotic stability of the travelling wave, the authors use the antiderivative method typically applied in the case of the classical viscous regularisation and derive a Lyapunov functional. This allows to deduce the decay of initially small perturbations.