Asymptotics of Radially Symmetric Solutions for the Exterior Problem of Multidimensional Burgers Equation

TL;DR

This paper investigates the long-term behavior and stability of radially symmetric solutions to the multidimensional Burgers equation outside a ball, establishing asymptotic stability and decay rates for stationary waves under broad conditions.

Contribution

It proves the time asymptotic nonlinear stability of stationary waves for the multidimensional Burgers equation with general boundary data, extending previous results to a wider parameter range.

Findings

Established algebraic and exponential decay rates for solutions.

Verified nonlinear stability of stationary waves for all admissible boundary conditions.

Applied space and space-time weighted energy methods for stability analysis.

Abstract

We are concerned with the large-time behavior of the radially symmetric solution for multidimensional Burgers equation on the exterior of a ball $\mathbb{B}_{r_0}(0)\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\geq 3$ and some positive constant $r_0>0$, where the boundary data $v_-$ and the far field state $v_+$ of the initial data are prescribed and correspond to a stationary wave. It is shown in \cite{Hashimoto-Matsumura-JDE-2019} that a sufficient condition to guarantee the existence of such a stationary wave is $v_+<0, v_-\leq |v_+|+\mu(n-1)/r_0$. Since the stationary wave is no longer monotonic, its nonlinear stability is justified only recently in \cite{Hashimoto-Matsumura-JDE-2019} for the case when $v_\pm<0, v_-\leq v_++\mu(n-1)/r_0$. The main purpose of this paper is to verify the time asymptotically nonlinear stability of such a stationary wave for the whole range of $v_\pm$ satisfying $v_+<0, v_-\leq |v_+|+\mu(n-1)/r_0$. Furthermore, we also derive the temporal convergence rate, both algebraically and exponentially. Our stability analysis is based on a space weighted energy method with a suitable chosen weight function, while for the temporal decay rates, in addition to such a space weighted energy method, we also use the space-time weighted energy method employed in \cite{Kawashima-Matsumura-CMP-1985} and \cite{Yin-Zhao-KRM-2009}.