Scaling Variables and Stability of Hyperbolic Fronts

DOI10.1137/S0036141099351334MaRDI QIDQ4509940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geneviève Raugel, Thierry Gallay

Publication date 19 October 2000

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9812007

zbMATH Keywords

family of monotone travelling wave solutionsparabolic limit equationperturbations in a weighted Sobolev spacesemilinear wave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

Abstract: We consider the damped hyperbolic equation (1) epsilon u_{tt} + u_t = u_{xx} + F(u), x in R, t ge 0, where epsilon is a positive, not necessarily small parameter. We assume that F(0) = F(1) = 0 and that F is concave on the interval [0,1]. Under these hypotheses, Eq.(1) has a family of monotone travelling wave solutions (or propagating fronts) connecting the equilibria u=0 and u=1. This family is indexed by a parameter c ge c_* related to the speed of the front. In the critical case c=c_*, we prove that the travelling wave is asymptotically stable with respect to perturbations in a weighted Sobolev space. In addition, we show that the perturbations decay to zero like t^{-3/2} as t o +infty and approach a universal self-similar profile, which is independent of epsilon, F and of the initial data. In particular, our solutions behave for large times like those of the parabolic equation obtained by setting epsilon = 0 in Eq.(1). The proof of our results relies on careful energy estimates for the equation (1) rewritten in self-similar variables x/sqrt{t}, log t.

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