Conditional stability of unstable viscous shock waves in compressible gas dynamics and MHD (Q717192)

The author studies the viscous shock solution of a general quasilinear hyperbolic-parabolic system of conservation laws with one spatial variable \[ U_t + F(U)_x = (B(U)_x)_x \] with given limits at infinities and some structural assumptions. The first \(n-r\) equations are linear in \(U\), in other equations the right-hand side contains only the last \(r\) components of \(U_x\). It is shown that a linearly unstable solution has a translation-invariant center stable manifold within which it is nonlinearly orbitally stable with respect to small perturbations, converging in time to a translate of the unperturbed wave.