The decay of sawtooth solutions to the Burgers equation

DOI10.1098/rspa.1980.0007zbMath0427.35062OpenAlexW2017576868MaRDI QIDQ3862527

D. F. Parker

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1980.0007

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionshyperbolic functionsBurgers equationnonlinear acousticsHopf-Cole transformationperiodic disturbancesawtooth wavesclassical Fay solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations (35K60) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Solutions to PDEs in closed form (35C05)

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