Long-time convergence of a nonlocal Burgers’ equation towards the local N-wave

Abstract

Abstract We study the long-time behaviour of the unique weak solution of a nonlocal regularisation of the (inviscid) Burgers equation where the velocity is approximated by a one-sided convolution with an exponential kernel. The initial datum is assumed to be positive, bounded, and integrable. The asymptotic profile is given by the ‘N-wave’ entropy solution of the Burgers equation. The key ingredients of the proof are a suitable scaling argument and a nonlocal Oleinik-type estimate.