Uniform asymptotic stability for convection–reaction–diffusion equations in the inviscid limit towards Riemann shocks

Abstract

The present contribution proves the asymptotic orbital stability of viscous regularizations of stable Riemann shocks of scalar balance laws, uniformly with respect to the viscosity/diffusion parameter $\epsilon$. The uniformity is understood in the sense that all constants involved in the stability statements are uniform and that the corresponding multiscale $\epsilon$-dependent topology reduces to the classical $W^{1,\infty }$-topology when restricted to functions supported away from the shock location. Main difficulties include that uniformity precludes any use of parabolic regularization to close regularity estimates, that the global-in-time analysis is also spatially multiscale due to the coexistence of nontrivial slow parts with fast shock-layer parts, that the limiting smooth spectral problem (in fast variables) has no spectral gap and that uniformity requires a very precise and unusual design of the phase shift encoding orbital stability. In particular, our analysis builds a phase that somehow interpolates between the hyperbolic shock location prescribed by the Rankine–Hugoniot conditions and the nonuniform shift arising merely from phasing out the nondecaying 0-mode, as in the classical stability analysis for fronts of reaction–diffusion equations.