Large-time behaviour of solutions of the inviscid non-planar Burgers equation (Q718998)

The authors study the problem of the inviscid non-planar Burgers equation subject to the initial profile being non-negative, bounded and of compact support. The asymptotic behaviour of the solution of the Cauchy problem and its support for large time is investigated. The method of characteristics, the use of similarity solution of the Burgers equation and the Rankine-Hugoniot jump condition are employed to deduce the entropy solution subject to the top-hat initial condition.