Stability of viscous shock profile for convective porous-media flow with degenerate viscosity

Abstract

In this paper, we are concerned with the large time behavior of viscous shock wave for the convective porous-media equation with degenerate viscosity. We get the regularity of the solution for general initial data and prove the shock wave is nonlinearly stable providing the initial perturbation is small. Moreover, the $L^{\infty }$ decay rate is obtained, which generalized the famous result [18]. Note that the traditional energy method and continuity argument can not be directly used for the case discussed in this paper since the degeneration of viscosity. One need to fully utilize the sign of perturbation and its derivative, decompose the integral domain into several parts to ensure that in each part the sign is invariant. Then the stability and the decay rate are obtained by energy method and an area inequality.