Multiple-mode diffusion waves for viscous nonstrictly hyperbolic conservation laws (Q810263)

The large-time behaviour of solutions of viscous conservation laws whose inviscid part is a nonstrictly hyperbolic system are studied. The multiple-mode diffusion waves, which are the new element here, are self- similar solutions of the viscous conservation laws with nonlinear fluxes replaced by their quadratic parts. The convergence rate to these diffusion waves is \(O(t^{-3/4+1/2p+\sigma})\) in \(L^ p\), \(1\leq p\leq \infty\), \(\sigma >0\) is arbitrarily small.