ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY OF NON-PLANAR RIEMANN SOLUTIONS FOR MULTI-D SYSTEMS OF CONSERVATION LAWS WITH SYMMETRIC NONLINEARITIES

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of entropy solutions of the Cauchy problem for multi-dimensional systems of conservation laws of the form [Formula: see text], where the gα are real smooth functions defined in [0,+∞), and when the initial data are perturbations of two-state nonplanar Riemann data. Specifically, if R0(x) is such Riemann data and ψ∈L∞(ℝd)n satisfies ψ(Tx)→0 in [Formula: see text], as T→∞, then an entropy solution, u(x,t), of the Cauchy problem with u(x,0)=R0(x)+ψ(x) satisfies u(ξt,t)→R(ξ) in [Formula: see text], as t→∞, where R(x/t) turns out to be the unique self-similar entropy solution of the corresponding Riemann problem.